" brooks "

[Biographical name]  | "Brooks" | \ ˈbru̇ks \

1: Gwendolyn Elizabeth 1917—2000 American poet

[Biographical name]  | "Brooks" 

1: Phillips 1835—1893 American bishop

[Biographical name]  | "Brooks" 

1: Van Wyck 1886—1963 American essayist and critic

[Biographical name]  | "Adams" 

1: Henry Brooks 1838—1918 son of Charles Francis Adams American historian

[Biographical name]  | "White" 

1: Elwyn Brooks 1899—1985 American journalist and writer

[Verb]  | "brook" 

1: to stand for : tolerate

Origin: 1530 ;

 Middle English brouken, broken "to have the benefit of, enjoy, employ, use, eat or drink, stomach, tolerate," going back to Old English brūcan "to enjoy the use of, use, employ, partake (of food or drink), possess," going back to Germanic *brūkan-/*brūkjan- (whence also Old Frisian brūka "to make use of, employ," Old Saxon brūkan "to enjoy the use of," Middle Dutch brūken "to use, enjoy," Old High German brūchan "to enjoy the use of," Gothic brūhjan "to use"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *bhruHg- "enjoy, use" whence also Latin fruor, fruī "to enjoy the produce or proceeds of, derive advantage from, be blessed with, derive pleasure from" (see: {see: |fruit:1|fruit:1});

  * Note : The Indo-European etymon *bhruHg- is attested only in Germanic and Italic, and within Germanic not in the northern branch (Danish bruge "to use," Swedish bruka, etc., are loans from Low German). In Old English brūcan is a Class II strong verb (preterit breac, brucon, participle brocen), and in Old Saxon brūkan, attested only in the infinitive, is probably also strong. In Middle English and the other Germanic languages, however, it is a weak verb, with only traces of possible strong forms. The phonetic outcome displayed by Modern English brook, with [], is peculiar and cannot directly continue Old English ū. E. J. Dobson hypothesizes that a new Middle English infinitive with was formed on the analogy of the weak past tense and past participle early enough to undergo open-syllable lengthening—hence brŭken > brọ̄ken > brook, with [u:] later shortened to [] (see: English Pronunciation, 1500-1700, 2. edition, Oxford, 1968, p. 513). Present-day English continues only a small portion of the original meaning of the verb.;

[Noun]  | "brook" | \ ˈbru̇k \

1: creek

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English, from Old English brōc; akin to Old High German bruoh marshy ground;

[Geographical name]  | "Brooks Range" | \ ˈbru̇ks \

1: mountain range in northern Alaska extending from Kotzebue Sound to the border with Canada; highest peak is over 9000 feet (2740 meters)

[Noun]  | "brooks" 

[Noun]  | "brook" 

[Verb]  | "brooks" 

[Verb]  | "brook"