Wiktionary

brez

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From *bren +‎ -ëz, possibly from Proto-Albanian *breuna, from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (compare Old English prēon (“pin, brooch needle”), Lithuanian briaunà (“edge”)).[1][2] Lent Romanian brâu ~ dialectal brân.[1]

Noun edit

brez m (plural breza, definite brezi, definite plural brezat)

  1. belt, girdle, waistband
  2. sash
  3. waistline, midriff
  4. (by extension) climatic zone
  5. (by extension) generation, bloodline
    brezi i ri
    the younger generation

Declension edit

Declension of brez
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative brez breza brezi brezat
accusative brezin
dative brezi brezave brezit brezavet
ablative brezash

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “brez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 36.
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Preposition edit

brez (Cyrillic spelling брез) (+ genitive case)

  1. (Croatia, Kajkavian, Chakavian) without

Slovene edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

brez

  1. (with genitive) without

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

brez

  1. genitive dual/plural of breza

Further reading edit

  • “brez”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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