different between leat vs brook

English

Alternative forms

• leet

Etymology

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ?el?te (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæter?el?t (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *l?t?, *gal?t? (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gil?z (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

Noun

leat (plural leats)

1. an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

Translations

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, tael, tale, teal, tela

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?at??/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l?æt??/

Pronoun

leat (emphatic leatsa)

1. second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

References

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *leat?k.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lea?h(t)/

Verb

leat

1. to be
2. (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

Usage notes

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• leahkit

Derived terms

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to

Noun

leat n (plural leaturi)

1. (dated) year
2. (figuratively) being of the same age
3. (dated) recruit

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• le + tu

Pronoun

leat

1. with you, by you (informal singular)

Derived terms

• leam-leat
• leatsa

See also

• leibh

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

Further reading

• “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: br??k, IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /b?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
   • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104

     After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
2. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii^[2]:

     […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?

3. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

Synonyms

• (use): apply, employ, utilize
• (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
• (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

• abrook

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

   • The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
2. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Holcombe Brook
• Rea Brook
• Stamford Brook

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

1. To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.