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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morning

UK /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/ · US /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/ noun, proper noun

Forms mornings

  1. noun The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon. “I'll see you tomorrow morning.”
  2. noun (figurative) The early part of anything.
  3. noun (obsolete) That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon).
  4. noun (chiefly Scotland) The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.
  5. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

a.m. forenoon yeender beforenoon early bright foreday matin morn morrow prime sparrow-fart undertime morning time good morning dawn dawning aurora first light daybreak break of day break of the day dayspring sunrise sunup cockcrow

Antonyms

afternoon

Etymology

From Middle English morwenynge, from morwen + -ynge. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.

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

Sanskrit

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

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