brerd

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English brerd,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *breʀd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz (“edge, shore”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /breːrd/[2], /brɛːrd/
  • IPA(key): /brøːrd/ (West Midland)

Noun

brerd (plural brerdes)

  1. brim, rim (top edge)
  2. edge, periphery, side

Descendants

  • >? English: breward, bruart (dialectal)
  • Middle Scots: brerd, breird

References

  1. ^ “brērd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ Aitken, A[dam] J., Macafee, Caroline, editors (2002), “Part One: Vowel Phonology of Scots to 1375”, in The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 3.1.1, page 8.

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *breʀd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz (“edge, shore”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brerd/, [brerˠd]

Noun

brerd m

  1. brim, margin, rim
    Synonym: brim
  2. top of a pot or vessel
  3. highest point of anything

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative brerd brerdas
accusative brerd brerdas
genitive brerdes brerda
dative brerde brerdum

Descendants

References

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