brek
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Etymology 1 edit
Shortening.
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brek (countable and uncountable, plural breks)
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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."
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brek m inan
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brek n (genitive singular breks, plural brek)
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Declension of brek | ||||
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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 |
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brek n (genitive singular breks, nominative plural brek)
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brek n (definite singular breket, indefinite plural brek, definite plural breka)
- a bleat
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brek
- imperative of breka
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brek m inan
- break (large four-wheeled carriage)
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Declension of brek
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Slovene edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *berkъ.
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brek m inan
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brek m anim
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brẹ̑k m inan
- break (four-wheeled carriage)
Further reading edit
- “brek”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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brek c (plural brekken, diminutive brekje)
Further reading edit
- “brek (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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brek
- Alternative form of brocke
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:
- T' brek up ee bathès h' had na poustee;
- To break up the goal they had not power;
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 88