brau
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Vulgar Latin *bravus. Compare Italian bravo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brau m (plural braus)
See also edit
- toro m
Adjective edit
brau (feminine brava, masculine plural braus, feminine plural braves)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “brau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “brau”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “brau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cimbrian edit
Noun edit
brau f (plural braun, diminutive bròille)
- (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of vrau
Declension edit
Luxembourgish edit
Verb edit
brau
Norn edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Orkney) brow
Etymology edit
From Old Norse brauð, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
Noun edit
brau
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German and Old High German brūn, from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. Compare German braun, Dutch bruin, English brown.
Adjective edit
brau
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *brus-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrus- (“to break apart, to shred”). Cognate with Cornish brew, Old Irish bruid.[1] See also: briw (“wound, injury”).
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /braɨ̯/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /brai̯/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /brɔi̯/
Adjective edit
brau (feminine singular brau, plural breuon, equative breued, comparative breuach, superlative breuaf)
- brittle, fragile, frail, weak
- (figurative) morally weak, rotten
- perishable (of goods)
- Synonym: darfodus
- tender (of food)
- loose (of soil)
- (baking) crumbly, short
- Synonym: briwsionllyd
- forthright, candid, harsh, blunt, brutally honest
- Synonyms: diflewyn-ar-dafod, parod, cyflym, buan, llym
Derived terms edit
- breuder, breuawd, breurwydd (“brittleness, frailness”)
- breuedig (“brittle”)
- breulifaid (“whetted, sharpened on a stone”)
- breulyd, breuol (“fragile, loose”)
- crwst brau (“shortcrust pastry”)
- ffiolredyn brau (“brittle bladder-fern”)
- teisen frau (“shortbread”)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
brau | frau | mrau | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |