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

“bartered” is a form of

barter

UK /ˈbɑː.(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈbɑɹ.tɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms barters bartering bartered

  1. noun An exchange of goods or services without the use of money. “We had no money so we had to live by barter.”
  2. noun The goods or services used in such an exchange. “The man used his watch as barter to pay for his tab.”
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money. “She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.”
  4. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chaffer swap swop trade quid pro quo chop dicker exchange truck scorse

Antonyms

buy sell

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French barater.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
  2. verb To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; --sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
  3. noun The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
  4. noun The thing given in exchange.

Etymology [OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange, perh. fr. Gr. to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath treachery, W. brad. Cf. Barrator.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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