abear
/əˈbɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear."
- "And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business."
- "So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]"
Etymology
From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈbɛɹ/
- British English: /əˈbɛə/