Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bruskaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrūs‑, *bʰrews‑ (“to roar, roil, rustle, sprout”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrus.kɑz/

Noun

*bruskaz m

1. scrub, undergrowth, underbrush
2. thicket, copse
3. sprout, shoot; twig

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *bruskaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bruskaz	*bruskōz, *bruskōs
vocative	*brusk	*bruskōz, *bruskōs
accusative	*bruską	*bruskanz
genitive	*bruskas, *bruskis	*bruskǫ̂
dative	*bruskai	*bruskamaz
instrumental	*bruskō	*bruskamiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *brusk
  • Old Saxon: *brusk
    • Middle Low German: brusch (“bucher's broom”)
  • Old Dutch: *brusk
    • Middle Dutch: brusc m (“shrubs, twigs, bundle of sticks”)
  • Old High German: brusk n (“shoot, bud”)
    • Middle High German: brüsch m (“thorny bush”)
      • German: Brüsch
  • → Vulgar Latin: *bruscus (“butcher's broom”)
    • Italian: brusco (“prickly broom”)
      • → Occitan: brusc
        • → French: brusc
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *bruscia (“tree shoot”)
      • Old French: broce (“scrub, brushwood, undergrowth”)
        • Middle French: broisse
          • French: brosse
        • → Middle English: brusche, brusshe
          • English: brush