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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

day

/deɪ̯/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms days daying dayed daie daye

  1. noun The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky. “day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.”
  2. noun A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long. “I've been here for two days and a bit.”
  3. noun The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
  4. noun The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
  5. noun (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise. “Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.”
  6. noun A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall. “The day begins at midnight.”
  7. noun (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet. “A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.”
  8. noun The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. “I worked two days last week.”
  9. verb (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
  10. proper noun A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval diminutive of David.
  11. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer, or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.
  12. proper noun A surname from Irish can be found as both Day and O'Day from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Modoc County, California.
  14. proper noun A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Florida.
  15. proper noun A township in Montcalm County, Michigan.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Isanti County, Minnesota.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Taney County, Missouri.
  18. proper noun A Mbum-Day language of Chad.

Synonyms

daylight daylength daytime photoperiod twenty-four hour day 24-hour day nychthemeron era epoch age cycle generation Great Year interval period Platonic year time yearday twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period 24-hour interval solar day mean solar day sidereal day Clarence Day Clarence Shepard Day Jr.

Antonyms

night nightertale nighttide nighttime scotoperiod skotoperiod

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Cognate with Scots day, dei, dey, dy (“day”), Yola daie, dei, dey, die (“day”), North Frisian dai, doi, däi (“day”), Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Bavarian Dåg, Tåg (“day”), Central Franconian Daach (“day”), Cimbrian tag, tage (“day”), Dutch dag, dagge (“day”), German Tag (“day”), German Low German Dag, Dagg (“day”), Limburgish Daach, Daag (“day”), Luxembourgish Dag (“day”), Mòcheno ta (“day”), Vilamovian taog (“day”), West Flemish dag (“day”), Yiddish טאָג (tog, “day”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dag (“day”), Faroese and Icelandic dagur (“day”), Norn dagh (“day”), Crimean Gothic tag (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”), Vandalic *dag- (“day”); also Breton deviñ (“to burn”), Cornish dewi (“to kindle”), Irish daigh (“fire, flame”), dóigh (“to burn, singe; sear, scorch”), Manx daah (“to scorch, singe; to cauterize”), Scottish Gaelic dòth (“scorch, singe; burn”), Welsh deifio (“to scorch, singe”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm”), Greek τέφρα (téfra, “ash, cinder”), Albanian dhez, ndez (“to kindle, light”), Old Prussian dagis (“summer”), Armenian հրդեհ (hrdeh, “fire”), Sanskrit दह् (dah, “to burn, consume by fire, scorch, roast”).

This surname has multiple origins. Besides the ones listed below, Norman origin has also been suggested from De Haie", or "a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  2. noun The period of the earth's revolution on its axis.

Etymology [OE. day, dai,, dei, AS. dæg; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G, tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ) to burn. *69. Cf. Dawn.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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