broos
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /broːs/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: broos
- Rhymes: -oːs
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch broosch. Cognate with Middle Low German brôsch, Old Norse breyskr, both “brittle”. Apparently from a Proto-Germanic *brauskiz (or *brauskaz). Perhaps related with Dutch verbrijzelen, German zerbröseln, English bruise. The Dutch inflected form should be *brose, but was voiced by analogy (cf. vlezig).
Adjective
broos (comparative brozer, superlative meest broos or broost)
- (literally) alternative form of bros (“brittle”)
- (figuratively) weak, fragile, vulnerable
- (figuratively) perishable, short-lived, fading
Declension
| Declension of broos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | broos | |||
| inflected | broze | |||
| comparative | brozer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | broos | brozer | het broost het brooste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | broze | brozere | brooste |
| n. sing. | broos | brozer | brooste | |
| plural | broze | brozere | brooste | |
| definite | broze | brozere | brooste | |
| partitive | broos | brozers | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: bròs
- → Sranan Tongo: brosu
Etymology 2
Noun
broos f (plural brozen, diminutive broosje n)
- (obsolete) cothurnus