different between bren vs brer

English

Etymology

From Middle English brennen, from Old English bærnan, from Proto-Germanic *brannijan? (“to set on fire”). Cognate with German brennen, Swedish bränna. Doublet of burn; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

bren (third-person singular simple present brens, present participle brenning, simple past brenned, past participle brenned or brent)

1. (obsolete) To burn (to set ablaze).

Related terms

• brending

Anagrams

• Bern, NBER, Nebr.

Albanian

Alternative forms

• breh

Etymology

Related to bredh (“fir”).

Noun

bren m

1. silver fir (Abies alba)

Galician

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *brigant?nos (“(someone) pre-eminent, outstanding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??-.

Noun

bren m (plural brens)

1. leader, master, chieftain

Etymology 2

From Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”)

Noun

bren m (plural brens)

1. bran

Kriol

Etymology

From English friend.

Noun

bren

1. friend

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bran, branne

Etymology

From Old French bren, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bran/, /bra?n/

Noun

bren

1. bran
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale: 197-9

     The moore queynte crekes that they make,

     The moore wol I stele whan I take.

     In stide of flour yet wol I yeve hem bren.

Descendants

• English: bran

References

• “br??n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• bran, brent, brin

Etymology

Celtic loanword, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).

Noun

bren m (nominative singular brens)

1. bran

Descendants

• ? French: berner
• ? Middle English: bren, bran, branne
  • English: bran

References

• “bren”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Welsh

Noun

bren

1. Soft mutation of pren.

Mutation

English

Noun

brer

1. Alternative spelling of br'er, contraction of brother.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

brer

1. present of bre

Palauan

Noun

brer

1. raft (usually made of bamboo)

Swedish

Verb

brer

1. present tense of bre.