brig
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Etymology 1 edit
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
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brig (plural brigs)
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
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brig (third-person singular simple present brigs, present participle brigging, simple past and past participle brigged)
- (US, military slang, dated) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
- (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
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References edit
- Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 22
Etymology 2 edit
From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.
Noun edit
brig (plural brigs)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:
- Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;
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brig (plural brigs)
References edit
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English bryċġ.
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brig
- Alternative form of brigge
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.
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brig
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Old Irish edit
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brig
- inflection of brí:
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Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
brig | brig pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbrig |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Polabian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.
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brig m ?
References edit
- The template Template:R:pox:SejDp does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “brig”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 52 - Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “brig”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 41
Scots edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.
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brig
- bridge
- Stirling Brig ― Stirling Bridge
- 1839, The Life of Mansie Wauch[2]:
- “Dinna flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre […].
- “Don’t flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre.
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.
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brȋg m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑г)
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Welsh edit
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not in GPC”)
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brig pl (no singulative)
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- ar frig y byd (“on top of the world”)
- briger (“tresses, locks”)
- brig Gwener (“maidenhair fern”)
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brig | frig | mrig | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |