See also: brauð and Braut

German

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯t

Verb

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braut

  1. inflection of brauen:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse braut; cognate with Faroese breyt.

Noun

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braut f (genitive singular brautar, nominative plural brautir)

  1. path, course, way
  2. (bowling) lane
Declension
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    Declension of braut
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative braut brautin brautir brautirnar
accusative braut brautina brautir brautirnar
dative braut brautinni brautum brautunum
genitive brautar brautarinnar brauta brautanna
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Inflected form of brjóta (to break).

Verb

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braut

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of brjóta

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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braut

  1. inflection of brauen:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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braut

  1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of bryte

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse braut.

Noun

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braut f (definite singular brauta, indefinite plural brauter, definite plural brautene)

  1. path dug into the ground
  2. slope

Etymology 2

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Verb

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braut

  1. past tense of bryte

References

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *brautō, derived from the verb *breutaną (to break) (hence Old Norse brjóta). For the semantic development, compare French route (road) from Latin rupta (via) (broken way).

Noun

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braut f (genitive brautar, plural brautir)

  1. road, cleared path

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: braut
  • Faroese: breyt
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: braut
  • Old Norse: braut, brott, burt (away)

References

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  • braut”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Welsh

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Noun

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braut m

  1. brother
  2. friar

Descendants

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Noun

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braut f

  1. judgment, legal decision