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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“sunrising” is a form of

sunrise

/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sunrises sunrising sunrised

  1. noun The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. “I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.”
  2. noun The change in color of the sky at dawn. “Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?”
  3. noun (figuratively) Any great awakening. “It was the sunrise of her spirit.”
  4. verb (business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
  5. verb (idiomatic, intransitive, rare) To awake.
  6. verb (idiomatic, transitive, rare) To cheer up, brighten, or illuminate.
  7. proper noun A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
  8. proper noun A city in Broward County, Florida.
  9. proper noun A neighbourhood of the city of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California.
  10. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Chisago County, Minnesota.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
  13. proper noun A ghost town in Platte County, Wyoming.

Synonyms

sunup daybreak sparrow-fart ass crack of dawn break break of dawn break of day butt crack of dawn cockcrow crack of dawn dawn daylight dayspring first light lauds solrise sun sunlight sunrising dawning morning aurora break of the day

Antonyms

sunset sundown cockshut crepusculum dark dimmity duckish dusk evenfall mirkning night nightfall

Etymology

From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.
  2. noun Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east.

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

Sanskrit

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

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