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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olden

UK /ˈəʊl.dn̩/ · US /ˈoʊldn̩/ adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms oldens oldening oldened

  1. adjective From or relating to a previous era.
  2. adjective (archaic) Old; ancient.
  3. verb (intransitive, dated or rare) To grow old; age; assume an older appearance or character; become affected by age.
  4. proper noun A surname.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas, United States.

Synonyms

bygone auld historical eldern elden mature

Antonyms

youngen

Etymology

From Middle English olden, probably originally an inflected plural form of old (compare Old English ealdum, dative plural of eald (“old”)), but later reanalysed as equivalent to old + -en (“made of”).
Otherwise derived from Old Norse aldinn (“ancient, old”).

From old + -en (“to make (adjective)”).

Variant of Alden.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.
  2. verb To grow old; to age. [R.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “olden” (best matches first).