different between brant vs brang

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).

Noun

brant (plural brants or brant)

1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

Translations

References

Further reading

• brant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Branta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Old English brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

Alternative forms

• brent

Adjective

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)

1. (dialectal) Steep, precipitous.
   • 1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven

     Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.

2. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
   • 1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson

     Your bonnie brow was brent.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.

Noun

brant m

1. fire
2. burning piece of wood
3. firewood, fuel
4. burn (mark on the skin or something else)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• brand

Derived terms

• branden

Descendants

• Dutch: brand
• Limburgish: brandj

Further reading

• “brant (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “brant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• brente (transitive)

Verb

brant

1. intransitive simple past of brenne

Old English

Alternative forms

• bront

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?ren- (“project”), related to Old Norse brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate with Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?nt/

Adjective

brant

1. tall, high, steep

Declension

Descendants

• English: brant
• Scots: brent

References

• Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.
• “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Old French

Noun

brant m (oblique plural branz or brantz, nominative singular branz or brantz, nominative plural brant)

1. Alternative form of branc

Old Norse

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?ren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), as well as barmr (“rim, edge”).

Noun

brant ?

1. (Eastern dialect) precipice

References

• Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.
• “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse brantr, brattr, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?ren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

Pronunciation

Adjective

brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)

1. steep (near-vertical)

Declension

Related terms

• branthet

See also

• bråd

References

• “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Vilamovian

Noun

brant m

1. fire, blaze
2. gangrene
3. grain smut

English

Etymology

Possibly inherited from Old English brang (also brong), alternative first and third person singular past indicative of bringan (“to bring”), although no Middle English intermediary is attested, and it may have been formed in more recent times by analogy with sing/sang instead, like its cognate Scots brang (“brought”) was.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

brang

1. (colloquial or dialectal, nonstandard) simple past tense of bring

Related terms

• brought
• brung

References