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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sunlight

/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ noun, verb

Forms sunlights sunlighting sunlighted

  1. noun All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth. “Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.”
  2. noun (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
  3. noun Synonym of sunrise.
  4. noun (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”). “sunlight zone”
  5. verb To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

Synonyms

daylight sun sunshine sunniness hope optimism daybreak dayspring dawn ass crack of dawn break break of dawn break of day butt crack of dawn cockcrow crack of dawn first light lauds solrise sparrow-fart

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The light of the sun. Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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