bren
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English brennen, from Old English bærnan, from Proto-Germanic *brannijaną (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bren (third-person singular simple present brens, present participle brenning, simple past brenned, past participle brenned or brent)
- (obsolete, transitive) To burn (to set ablaze).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren,
That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Related to bredh (“fir”).
Noun edit
bren m
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From Old Catalan breny, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”). Cognate with English bran.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bren m (plural brens)
Further reading edit
- “bren” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bren”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bren” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Kriol edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bren
Middle English edit
Noun edit
bren
- Alternative form of bran
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale: 197-9
- The moore queynte crekes that they make,
The moore wol I stele whan I take.
In stide of flour yet wol I yeve hem bren.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale: 197-9
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Celtic loanword, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).
Noun edit
bren oblique singular, m (nominative singular brens)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “bren”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Welsh edit
Noun edit
bren
- Soft mutation of pren.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pren | bren | mhren | phren |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |