brek
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Shortening.
NounEdit
brek (countable and uncountable, plural breks)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
brek
- Pronunciation spelling of break.
- 1897, William O. Stoddard, Crowded Out o' Crofield[1]:
- "They were goin' to brek into me house, indade," said Mrs. McNamara.
- 1900, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories[2]:
- At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
- 1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat[3]:
- If that's Gavin Stevenson, the muckle nowt, I declare I'll brek his ramshackle blunderbuss owre his thick heid."
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brek m inan
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
FaroeseEdit
NounEdit
brek n (genitive singular breks, plural brek)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of brek | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n3 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | brek | brekið | brek | brekini |
| accusative | brek | brekið | brek | brekini |
| dative | breki | brekinum | brekum | brekunum |
| genitive | breks | breksins | breka | brekanna |
IcelandicEdit
NounEdit
brek n (genitive singular breks, nominative plural brek)
DeclensionEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brek n (definite singular breket, indefinite plural brek, definite plural breka)
- a bleat
VerbEdit
brek
- imperative of breka
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brek m inan
- break (large four-wheeled carriage)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of brek
Further readingEdit
SloveneEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *berkъ.
NounEdit
brek m inan
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
brek m anim
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
brẹ̑k m inan
- break (four-wheeled carriage)
Further readingEdit
- “brek”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
brek c (plural brekken, diminutive brekje)
Further readingEdit
- “brek (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
YolaEdit
VerbEdit
brek
- Alternative form of brocke
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10:
- T' brek up ee bathès h' had na poustee;
- To break up the goal they had not power;
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 88