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abear

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishaberen, fromOld Englishāberan(“to bear, carry, carry away”), fromā-(“away, out”),a- +beran(“to bear”), fromProto-Germanic*uzberaną(“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰer-(“to bear, carry”), equivalent toa- +‎bear. Cognate withOld High Germanirberan,Gothic𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽(usbairan).

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /əˈbɛə/,[əˈbɛː]
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)IPA^(key): /əˈbɛɹ/,[əˈbɛɚ]
(General Australian)IPA^(key): /əˈbeː/
(New Zealand, without thecheer–chair merger)IPA^(key): /əˈbeə/
(New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)IPA^(key): /əˈbiə/
(Scotland)IPA^(key): /əˈbeɹ/,[əˈbeːɹ]
(Lancashire, fair–fur merger)IPA^(key): /əˈbɜː(ɹ)/
Rhymes:-ɛə(ɹ)

Verb

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abear (third-person singular simple presentabears,present participleabearing,simple pastabore,past participleabornoraborne)

(transitive, now rare, dialectal) Toput up with; toendure; tobear.[from 9th c.]
- 1872, James De Mille,The Cryptogram‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published2009:
  Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I neverabore yet, and never willabear.
- 1926,Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, inLud-in-the-Mist‎^[2], London: Millennium, published2000, page68:
  And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’tabear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.
(transitive, obsolete) Tobear; tocarry.[10th–15th c.]
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Tobehave; tocomport oneself.[16th–17th c.]
- 1596,Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Queene,V.12:
  So did the Faerie knight himselfeabeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield[…]