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bran

See also: Bran, braň, brán, brân, and brån

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

 
wheat bran (1)
 
(2)

From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)

  1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
  2. (ornithology) The European carrion crow.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

NounEdit

bran m (plural brini)

  1. crow, raven

InflectionEdit

  Mutation of bran  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular bran vran unchanged pran
plural brini vrini unchanged prini

See alsoEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *brandus, from Frankish *brand.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bran m (plural brans)

  1. broadsword

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

CornishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bran m (plural brini or briny)

  1. crow

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bran f

  1. genitive plural of brána

NounEdit

bran f

  1. genitive plural of brány

IrishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. (literary) raven
    Synonym: fiach
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bran

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bran brain
Vocative a bhrain a bhrana
Genitive brain bran
Dative bran brain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bran na brain
Genitive an bhrain na mbran
Dative leis an mbran

don bhran

leis na brain

Derived termsEdit
  • branán m (“raven; a principal piece in ancient board-game set; prince”)

Etymology 2Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. bream (Abramis brama)
    Synonyms: bréan, deargán
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bran

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bran brain
Vocative a bhrain a bhrana
Genitive brain bran
Dative bran brain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bran na brain
Genitive an bhrain na mbran
Dative leis an mbran

don bhran

leis na brain

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular bran)

  1. Clipping of bran (mór) (“bran”).
  2. Clipping of bran beag (“pollard”).
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bran

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative bran
Vocative a bhran
Genitive bran
Dative bran

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an bran
Genitive an bhran
Dative leis an mbran

don bhran

Etymology 4Edit

From English bran.

NounEdit

bran m (genitive singular bran)

  1. bran
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bran

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative bran
Vocative a bhran
Genitive bran
Dative bran

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an bran
Genitive an bhran
Dative leis an mbran

don bhran

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bran bhran mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French bren, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /bran/, /brɛn/, /braːn/

NounEdit

bran

  1. The ground husk of wheat

DescendantsEdit

  • English: bran
  • Yola: bran

ReferencesEdit

Old FrenchEdit

NounEdit

bran m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural bran)

  1. Alternative form of branc

Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bran m (genitive brain or broin, nominative plural brain or broin)

  1. raven
    Synonyms: fiach, trogan

InflectionEdit

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bran branL brainL
Vocative brain branL branuH
Accusative branN branL branuH
Genitive brainL bran branN
Dative branL branaib branaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

DescendantsEdit

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bran bran
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

SloveneEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Slavic *bornь. Cognate with Polish broń.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brȃn f

  1. defense
InflectionEdit
Feminine, i-stem, mobile accent
nom. sing. brán
gen. sing. braní
singular dual plural
nominative brán braní braní
accusative brán braní braní
genitive braní braní braní
dative bráni branéma braném
locative bráni branéh branéh
instrumental branjó branéma branmí

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

NounEdit

bran

  1. genitive dual/plural of brana

Further readingEdit

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

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bran.

NounEdit

bran m (uncountable)

  1. bran (broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain), husks

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bran fran mran unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

YolaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English bran, from Old French bran, bren, from Gaulish brennos.

NounEdit

bran

  1. bran
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Aar was a gooude puddeen maate o bran.
      There was a good pudding made of bran.

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 93
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