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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gloaming

UK /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/ · US /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of gloam

Forms gloamings

  1. noun Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
  2. noun (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

Synonyms

crepuscule glooming vespers blue hour crepusculum dimmet evenglome tweenlight twilight misery sadness sorrow woe dusk gloam nightfall evenfall fall crepuscle

Antonyms

daytime daylight nighttime darkness

Etymology

From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.
  2. noun Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

Etymology [See Gloom.]

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