brook

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
2. To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
3. (obsolete) To earn; deserve.

Noun

1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
2. A water meadow.
3. Low, marshy ground.

sinonimi

stream

creek

rivulet

river

tolerate

stomach

endure

bear

🐻

digest

streamlet

small river

stand

support

abide

burn

mountain stream

stick out

ditch

rill

condone

put up with

suffer

put up

valley

runlet

runnel

take

flow

run

beck

watercourse

pit

irrigation ditch

brooklet

hold still for

underbridge

river water

anabranch

overbridge

water

🚰

water running

creek

accept

🉑

admit

allow

bear with

bide

bourn

bourne

brave

canyon

channel

connive at

countenance

crevice

current

do with

eat

🍽️

enjoy

forbear

gorge

gully

let

permit

rapids

ravine

stand for

surface water

torrent

tributary stream

use

vouchsafe

waterway

weather

benefit from

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɹʊk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: brouken

Ereditato da inglese antico: brūcan

Affine saterfriesisch: bruke

Affine olandese: bruiken

Affine tedesco: brauchen

Affine svedese: bruka

Affine islandese: brúka

Ereditato da inglese medio: brook

Ereditato da inglese antico: brōc

In summary

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).