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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

English

Etymology

brine +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?a?ni/

Adjective

briny (comparative brinier or more briny, superlative briniest or most briny)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

Translations

Noun

the briny

1. (slang) The sea.

Translations

Cornish

Alternative forms

• brini

Noun

briny m pl

1. plural of bran (“crow”)