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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dusk

/dʌsk/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms dusker duskest dusks dusking dusked

  1. adjective Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  2. noun The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period. “Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.”
  3. noun A darkish colour.
  4. noun The condition of being dusky; duskiness
  5. verb (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
  6. verb (transitive) To make dusk.

Synonyms

evenfall nightfall smokefall vespers cockshut crepusculum dark dimmity duckish mirkning night sun sundown sunset twilight gloaming gloam fall crepuscule crepuscle

Antonyms

dawn daybreak

Etymology

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more). Doublet of fuscous.

From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  2. noun Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
  3. noun A darkish color.
  4. verb To make dusk. [Archaic]

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

Sanskrit

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