different between branny vs ranny

English

Etymology

bran +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æni/

Adjective

branny (comparative brannier, superlative branniest)

1. Full of or resembling bran.
   • 1929, Robert Thurston Hopkins, "A Ballade of Excellent Bread", in Kipling's Sussex Revisited

     Miller, miller, jolly and gay, / Grind me some of your best to-day; / Wholemeal flour branny and bold / Fill me as much as my bin will hold.

Synonyms

• furfuraceous

English

Etymology

From Latin m?sar?neus (“shrew, fieldmouse”).

Noun

ranny (plural rannies)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, XVIII:

     instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus and Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny, blind [...].

Anagrams

• Ryann

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.n?/

Etymology 1

rana +? -ny

Adjective

ranny (comparative bardziej ranny, superlative najbardziej ranny)

1. wounded, injured

   Synonym: poraniony, zraniony

Declension

Etymology 2

rano +? -ny

Adjective

ranny (not comparable)

1. morning

   Synonym: poranny

Derived terms

• ranny ptaszek

Further reading

• ranny in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ranny in Polish dictionaries at PWN