different between brant vs brunt

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

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
   • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

     There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:

     "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"

     "What if they do? We must brunt it."

   We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

• burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.