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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demon

/ˈdiː.mən/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of daemon

Forms demons daimon daemon dæmon

  1. noun An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
  2. noun (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
  3. noun (figuratively, by extension) A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
  4. noun A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw. “The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.”
  5. noun (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
  6. noun A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
  7. noun (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
  8. noun A supernatural being not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity.
  9. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek.

Synonyms

genius tutelary deity barghest bogie bogeyman boggard bogle cacodemon daeva devil evil genius fiend flibbertigibbet ghoul goblin imp kobold nis spook troll daemon daimon monster ogre

Etymology

From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Displaced native Old English sċucca (“evil spirit”) and Old English þyrs (“ogre or monster”). Doublet of daimon.

From distinct electron motion + -on.

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
  2. noun One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written dæmon.]

Etymology [F. démon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. Gr. 1. (Gr. Antiq.) Defn: A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. [Often written dæmon.]

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

Sanskrit

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