thole
Meaning
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- To suffer.
- To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/θəʊl/
Etymology
From Middle English thōle, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare Norwegian Bokmål tåle.
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