different between bray vs beray

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bre?, IPA^(key): /b?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: brae

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English braien, brai, braie, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragi?, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragr? (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekan? (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”).

The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above.

Verb

bray (third-person singular simple present brays, present participle braying, simple past and past participle brayed)

1. (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.

   Synonyms: (archaic, dialectal) blore, (ass or donkey) hee-haw
2. (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
3. (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.

Derived terms

• brayer
• braying (noun)
• brayingly

Translations

Noun

bray (plural brays)

1. The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.

   Synonym: (ass or donkey) hee-haw

2. (by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English braie, braien, braye, brayen, breien (“to break (something) into small pieces, to chop, crush, grind; to use a mortar”), from Anglo-Norman breier, Old French breie, breier, broiier (modern French broyer (“to crush, grind”)), possibly from Frankish *brekan (“to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekan? (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg- (“to break”); thus making the English word a doublet of break.

Verb

bray (third-person singular simple present brays, present participle braying, simple past and past participle brayed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.
2. (transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).

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References

Anagrams

• Raby, Ryba, bary-, yarb

English

Etymology

From be- +? ray (“to defile”), from Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.

Verb

beray (third-person singular simple present berays, present participle beraying, simple past and past participle berayed)

1. To make foul; befoul; soil.
   • 1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,

     Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

Anagrams

• Bayer, Beary, Earby, Yebra, barye, beary, by ear, yerba