different between brut vs brit

English

Etymology

From French brut (“raw”), from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy”).

Adjective

brut (comparative more brut, superlative most brut)

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

Anagrams

• Burt, trub

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?ut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. unrefined, unpurified
2. dirty

   Synonyms: sutze, llord

   Antonym: net

3. gross

Derived terms

• brutament

Further reading

• “brut” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “brut” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “brut” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “brut” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• brot

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta)

1. ugly
2. bad

French

Etymology

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy, dull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?yt/

Adjective

brut (feminine singular brute, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. gross (as opposed to net)
2. raw
3. (drinks) strong

Derived terms

• art brut
• produit intérieur brut

Related terms

• brutal
• brute

Descendants

• ? English: brut
• ? German: brut

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French brut, from Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

brut (not comparable)

1. brut

Declension

Further reading

• “brut” in Duden online

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *br?di, whence also Old Saxon br?d, Old English br?d, Old Norse brúðr,

Noun

br?t f

1. bride

Coordinate terms

• br?tigomo

Descendants

• Middle High German: br?t
  • Alemannic German: Bruut
  • Central Franconian: Brock, Brout, Bruut, Bruck

    Hunsrik: praut

  • German: Braut
  • Luxembourgish: Braut
  • ? Friulian: brût
  • ? Old French: bruy
    • French: bru

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German br?t

Pronunciation

Noun

br?t n (plural brut) (diminutive brut?a)

1. bread
2. loaf (of bread)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewd-. Through vowel-substitution also found as bryt, bryit; compare bruttu.

Pronunciation

• (Umeå, Bygdeå) IPA^(key): /²br??t/
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): /²bre???t/
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /²br????t/

  Rhymes: -???t

Verb

brut (preterite bröjt or braut, supine brutti)

1. (transitive, with å or sånder) to break; to divide abruptly or remove a piece from something by breaking it

   Hä skikkä säg sä, att’n braut å bäinä

   It so happened, that he broke his leg.

Derived terms

• breot heode för

Related terms

• bruttu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjan? (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English br?otan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

Alternative forms

• britt
• brite (dialectal)

Verb

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

Derived terms

• britten
• brittle

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

Alternative forms

• britt

Noun

brit (plural brit)

1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

Etymology 3

Short for brit milah.

Alternative forms

• bris

Noun

brit (plural brits)

1. brit milah

Anagrams

• BIRT, Birt, Trib, birt, trib

Albanian

Etymology

Gheg word. From Proto-Albanian *breita, from Proto-Indo-European *bhr?i-, *bhr??- (“to pierce, cut with something sharp”). Cognate to Lithuanian bárti (“to scold, chide”), Old Irish briathar (“argument”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (brati, “fight”), Welsh brwydr (“fight, struggle”).

Noun

brit f

1. scream, yell

Derived terms

• bërtas
• britmë