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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midnight

UK [ˈmɪd̚naɪt] · US [ˈmɪd̚ˌnɐɪt] noun, adjective

Forms midnights

  1. noun The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. “Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.”
  2. noun Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
  3. noun (dice games) Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
  4. adjective (poetic) Utterly dark or black.

Synonyms

boxcars 00:00 12 o'clock 12 midnight 12 a.m. 24:00 dead of night noon noon of night

Antonyms

noon midday

Etymology

From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  2. adjective Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. "Midnight shout and revelry." Milton.

Etymology [AS. midniht.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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