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Added 8 October 2026

bring

/ˈbɹɪŋ/ verb

In Latin: addō, addūcō, portō Wiktionary

verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about bring at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.
Bring me the box from the other room
Cause to come into a particular state or condition.
Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence
Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
I cannot work a miracle

Origin

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-. Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).

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