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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commodity

UK /kəˈmɒdəti/ · US /kəˈmɑdəti/ noun

Forms commodities commoditie

  1. noun (business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
  2. noun Something useful or valuable.
  3. noun (economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges. “The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.”
  4. noun (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin and (usually) fungibility, as distinguished from branded products not wholly fungible. “Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity.”
  5. noun (Marxism) Anything which has both a use value and an exchange value.
  6. noun (obsolete) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
  7. noun (obsolete) Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

Synonyms

trade good good

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English commoditee, borrowed from Anglo-Norman commoditee, from Latin commoditās.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.]
  2. noun That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), --goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

Etymology [F. commodit, fr. L. commoditas. See Commode.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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