different between brig vs brin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Translations

See also

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

Etymology 2

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugj?. Doublet of bridge.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.

Etymology 3

Clipping of brigadier

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• RGBI

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bry??.

Noun

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Alternative forms

• brigg, bryg, bregg

Descendants

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • ? English: brig, brigg

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?i??/

Noun

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

Mutation

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brik/

Noun

brig m

1. bank, shore (of a river)

Scots

Alternative forms

• brigg, breeg

Etymology

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Descendants

• ? English: brig, brigg

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English brig.

Noun

brig m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. A brig (two-masted vessel)

Synonyms

• brik

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri??/

Noun

brig m (plural brigau)

1. crest, peak, summit, top

Mutation

English

Etymology

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??n/

Noun

brin (plural brins)

1. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

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2. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.

Anagrams

• IBNR, RNIB

French

Etymology

Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinik?, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broen-enn, Welsh brwyn-en).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [b?æ?]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

brin m (plural brins)

1. blade (of grass)
2. sprig, twig
3. wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
4. (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint

See also

• fétu
• touffe

Further reading

• “brin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, p. 257, 258
• “brin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN
• Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
• “brin” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bregn
• (Puter, Vallader) brün

Etymology

From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining, brown”).

Adjective

brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brín/

Noun

br?n m inan

1. juniper

Inflection

Further reading

• “brin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran