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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stygian

/ˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ən/ adjective, noun

Forms Stygians

  1. adjective Infernal or hellish.
  2. adjective Dark and gloomy.
  3. adjective (color theory, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.
  4. adjective (Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.
  5. adjective (astronomy) Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx.
  6. noun (science fiction) An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).

Synonyms

helly subtartarean Acherontic infernal Hadean hellish Plutonic Plutonian Tartarean cimmerian dusky tenebrous adumbral blear caliginous crepuscular dark darksome darkling dim Acheronian

Etymology

From Latin stygius + -ian, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).

See stygian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal.

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