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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“darkeneth” is a form of

darken

UK /ˈdɑːkən/ · US /ˈdɑɹkən/ verb

Forms darkens darkening darkened darkenest darkenedst darkeneth

  1. verb (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
  2. verb (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
  3. verb (impersonal) To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
  4. verb (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
  5. verb (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
  6. verb (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
  7. verb (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
  8. verb (transitive) To blind, impair the eyesight.

Synonyms

bedark blacken endark swarten mirken dusk darkle begloom bring down dispirit aggrieve attrist begrieve besorrow grieve pain come down on contristate dash deject

Antonyms

lighten brighten

Etymology

From Middle English derkenen, dirkenen, from Old English *deorcnian, *diercnian (“to darken”), from Proto-West Germanic *dirkinōn (“to darken”), equivalent to dark + -en.
Cognate with Scots derken, durken (“to darken”), Old High German tarchanjan, terchinen (“to darken”), Middle High German terken, derken (“to darken”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
  2. verb To render dim; to deprive of vision.
  3. verb To grow or darker.

Etymology [AS. deorcian. See Dark, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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