See also: brise and -bris

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Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, covenant).

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bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

  1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
    • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129:
      The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.
    • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155:
      Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.
    • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 109:
      However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

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  • IPA(key): /bʁi/
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bris m (plural bris)

  1. shattering

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Related to brjósk (gristle, cartilage), where the original sense was "sweetbread."

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bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

  1. (anatomy) pancreas

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  • Pierson, S. (2011). The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes. United States: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

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From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

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bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
  2. sack, fire, dismiss
  3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
  4. burst (of dam)
  5. overthrow (of government)

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bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

  1. loss
    Ní maith liom do bhris.
    I’m sorry for your loss.

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bris bhris mbris
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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brìs

  1. third-person singular future of bristi
  2. third-person plural future of bristi

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From Middle Low German brise.

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bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

  1. (weather) a breeze

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From Middle Low German brise.

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bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

  1. (weather) a breeze

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bris

  1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

  1. inflection of brisid:
    1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
    2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bris bris
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbris
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

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bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

  1. break, smash
  2. breach

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brȋs m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

  1. (medicine) swab, smear

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From Old Spanish and Portuguese brisa (northeast wind).

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bris c

  1. (often nautical) breeze
    styv bris
    fresh ("stiff") breeze (at sea)

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  • More nautical-sounding compared to English breeze, but also used more generally.
  • Plural form could also be brisar.

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Declension of bris 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bris brisen briser briserna
Genitive bris brisens brisers brisernas

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From English bridge.

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bris

  1. bridge
  2. wharf

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bris

  1. Soft mutation of pris.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pris bris mhris phris
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.