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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dawn

/dɔːn/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms dawns dawning dawned

  1. verb (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight. “A new day dawns.”
  2. verb (intransitive, figurative) To start to appear or become obvious. “I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.”
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  4. noun (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  5. noun (countable) The rising of the sun.
  6. noun (uncountable) The time when the sun rises. “She rose before dawn to meet the train.”
  7. noun (uncountable) The earliest phase of something. “The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.”
  8. proper noun A female given name from English, sometimes given to a girl born at dawn.

Synonyms

glimpse break of dawn break of day daybreak day-dawn dayspring sunrise crack of dawn beginning onset start ass crack of dawn break butt crack of dawn cockcrow daylight first light lauds solrise sparrow-fart dawning morning aurora break of the day sunup click get through come home get across sink in

Antonyms

dusk

Etymology

From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.

From dawn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
  2. verb To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. "In dawning youth." Dryden.
  3. noun The break of day; the first appeareance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
  4. noun First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

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

Sanskrit

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

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