Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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darkling

/ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ/ adverb, adjective, noun

Forms darklings

  1. adverb In the dark; in obscurity.
  2. adjective (poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
  3. adjective (figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.
  4. noun (rare) Darkness.
  5. noun (obsolete) A child of darkness; someone dark by nature or who has grown dark in character.
  6. noun (fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
  7. noun (poetic) A demon.

Etymology

From Middle English derkelyng. By surface analysis, dark + -ling.

Coined by Irish poet Mary Tighe in 1805, likely as an extension of the adverbial sense, and popularized by John Keats.

From darkle + -ing, darkle itself a backformation from Tighe's adjectival sense.

From dark + -ling.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In the dark. [Poetic]
  2. Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
  3. Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.

Etymology [Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “darkling”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details