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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mart

UK /mɑːt/ · US /mɑɹt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of mar

Forms marts marting marted

  1. noun (Canada, US, Philippines, usually only in combination) A shop, a store, a market. “FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart”
  2. noun A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace. “In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.”
  3. noun (obsolete) A bargain.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To traffic.
  6. noun (obsolete) A battle; a contest.
  7. noun (historical) A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
  8. noun A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
  9. noun (by extension, the animal or its meat) Salt beef.
  10. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Martin.
  11. proper noun (Roman mythology) Mars, god of war.

Synonyms

marketplace market place market

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.

From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A market.
  2. noun A bargain. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. verb To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart. [Obs.]
  4. verb To traffic. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [Contr. fr. market.]

Etymology [See Mars.]

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

Sanskrit

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