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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daily

/ˈdeɪli/ adjective, noun, verb, adverb, proper noun

Forms dailies dailying dailied Dailys dayly

  1. adjective That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day. “daily life”
  2. adjective (archaic) Diurnal: by daylight.
  3. noun Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
  4. noun A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.
  5. noun (UK) A cleaner who comes in daily.
  6. noun (UK, slang) A daily disposable.
  7. noun (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
  8. noun (US, automotive, colloquial) A daily driver.
  9. noun (US, film, television) Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.
  10. noun (film, always plural) The daily revenue associated with a cinematic release. “The new Disney movie is doing incredible numbers in the dailies.”
  11. verb (US, automotive, colloquial) To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
  12. verb (US, colloquial, by extension) To use, especially of a computer or operating system, for everyday tasks.
  13. adverb quotidianly, every day
  14. adverb diurnally, by daylight
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

circadianly diurnally journal quotidian per diem circadian diurnal hemeral nychthemeral daily paper daily help daily maid day-to-day day-by-day day-after-day casual everyday day by day

Antonyms

nightly at night ahemeral

Etymology

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæġlīċe (found only as dæġhwāmlīċe), equivalent to day + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
  2. noun A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
  3. adverb Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

Etymology [AS. dæglic; dæg day + -lic like. See Day.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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