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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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brook

/bɹʊk/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of brooke brooks

Forms brooks brooking brooked Brooke

  1. verb (transitive, formal, chiefly in the negative) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate. “brook no refusal”
  2. verb (transitive, puristic, otherwise Scotland) To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
  4. noun (chiefly Northeastern US, parts of UK) A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  5. noun (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
  6. proper noun A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
  7. proper noun A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
  8. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
  9. proper noun A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
  10. proper noun A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
  11. proper noun A hamlet in Tedburn St Mary parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, divided into Higher and Lower Brook (OS grid ref SX8091).
  12. proper noun A hamlet in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4772).
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Bramshaw parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU2714).

Synonyms

abear abide aby accept allow bear bide dree endure forbear go along with live with pass pocket pouch put up with stand stick stomach suffer creek digest stick out tolerate support put up

Etymology

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”).

From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).

* As an English surname, from the noun brook.
* As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above.
* As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above.
* As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
  2. verb To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. verb To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser.

Etymology [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. broc; akin to D. broek, LG. brok, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]

Etymology [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br, Goth. br, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]

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