Hyphenation
Brus·sels sproutTurkish pronunciation
brʌsılz sprautPronunciation
/ˈbrəsəlz ˈsprout/ /ˈbrʌsəlz ˈspraʊt/
Etymology
[ 'br&-s&l- ] (noun.) 1796. Named after Brussels, the capital city of the duchy of Brabant and presently of Belgium. Sprout is from Old English -sprutan (in asprutan (“to sprout”); cognate with Old Saxon sprutan, Old Frisian spruta, Middle Dutch spruten, modern Dutch spruit (“sprout; Brussels sprout”), Old High German spriozan, German spreissen (“to sprout”), from the Proto-Germanic root *spreutanan, from Proto-Indo-European base *sper- (“to strew”).