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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merchandise

UK /ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/ · US /ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/ noun, verb

Forms merchandises merchandising merchandised merchandize merchaundise merchaundize mdse

  1. noun (uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale. “Good business depends on having good merchandise.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
  3. noun (countable, archaic) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
  4. noun (uncountable, archaic) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
  5. verb (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
  6. verb (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods. “He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.”
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
  8. verb (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of. “He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.”
  9. verb (transitive) To promote as if for sale. “The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.”

Synonyms

merch wares product ware trade

Etymology

From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.

From Middle English marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”), from marchaundise (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
  2. noun The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
  3. verb To trade; to carry on commerce. Bacon.
  4. verb To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. "Love is merchandised." Shak.

Etymology [F. marchandise, OF. marcheandise.]

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

Sanskrit

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