bräken
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish brækne, from Old Norse *brakni (“undergrowth”), related to Proto-Germanic *brekaną and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”).[1] Compare Danish bregne, English bracken.
Noun edit
bräken c
- A fern, especially the bracken fern Pteris aquilina.
References edit
- ^ “bracken”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.