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

“borrowed” is a form of

borrow

UK /ˈbɒɹəʊ/ · US /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms borrows borrowing borrowed borrowest borrowedst borroweth boro

  1. verb To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. verb To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
  3. verb To adopt (an idea) as one's own. “to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another”
  4. verb (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
  5. verb (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  6. verb (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
  7. verb (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  8. verb To feign or counterfeit.
  9. noun (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. “This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.”
  10. noun (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
  11. noun (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
  12. noun A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  13. noun A surety; someone standing bail.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

adopt use creance desume scunge take over take up

Antonyms

give back lend return carry buy take

Etymology

From Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.

From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; --the opposite of lend.
  2. verb To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; --a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
  3. noun Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
  4. noun The act of borrowing. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. Borough.]

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

Sanskrit

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