- bhren-
- bhren-English meaning: to stick out; edgeDeutsche Übersetzung: “hervorstehen; Kante under likewise”Note: as bher- ds.Material: Ir. braine “ front part of the ship; guide, leader; edge, border”, Corn. brenniat ds. With formants t: Lat. frōns, -tis m., new f. “ the forehead, brow, front “; O.Ice. brandr “ sword “ (*bhron-tó-); in wider meaning ‘stick, board; sword” against it probably from *bhrondho- to bherdh- “cut, clip”. With formants d: O.E. brant, O.Ice. brattr “high, sharp” (*bhrondos), Ltv. bruôdin̨š “ridge of the roof”. bhren-q-: Gmc. *branha- in O.S. brü-, Mod.Swe. brå- ‘sharp” in PN; O.Ice. bringa “brost, thorax, brostbone of birds”, Mod.Ice. bringr ‘small hill”; maybe Alb. (*bhren) brinjë “rib, chest bone, hillside”Note: Alb. proves that from Root bhren-to-s : “herdsman, *wanderer, *horn” derived from an extended Root bhren- : “to stick out; edge”. Lith. brankà “the swelling”, brankšó ti, branksóti “ jut out stiffly (of bones, laths)”; ablaut. brìnkstu, brìnkti “to swell”; Slav. *bręknǫ, *bręknǫti in Russ. nabrjáknutь “to bloat, bulge, swell” etc. bhren-g- perhaps in O.Ice. brekka (*brinkōn) “ steep hill”, older Dan. brink, brank “ upright “, M.Eng. nEng. brink “edge, border, bank, shore”, M.L.G. brink “edge of a field, field margin, meadow”, M.Du. brinc, nDutch brink “edge, grass strip, border of grass, grass field “.References: WP. II 203 f., WH. I 551, Trautmann 36.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.