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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merchant

UK /ˈmɜːtʃənt/ · US /ˈmɝt͡ʃənt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms merchants merchanting merchanted marchant merchaunt

  1. noun A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
  2. noun The owner or operator of a retail business.
  3. noun A trading vessel; a merchantman.
  4. noun (informal, sometimes derogatory) Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour. “He's some kind of speed merchant — he drives way too fast.”
  5. noun (obsolete) A supercargo.
  6. verb As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

trader chandler chapman copreman dealer huckster haggler hawker monger peddler retailer salesperson seller shopkeeper shoppie storekeep vendor merchandiser

Antonyms

purchaser

Etymology

From Middle English marchaunt, from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, from mercans, from the verb mercor (“to trade, deal, sell”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
  2. noun A trading vessel; a merchantman. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. adjective Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service. Merchant bar, Merchant iron or steel, certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
  4. verb To be a merchant; to trade. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. marchant, OF. marcheant, F. marchand, fr. LL. mercatans, -antis, p. pr. of mercatare to negotiate, L. mercari to traffic, fr. merx, mercis, wares. See Market, Merit, and cf. Commerce.]

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

Sanskrit

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