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brerd

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Middle English

Alternative forms

breerd, brerde
breord, brurd (West Midland)
berde, brede (dissimilatory)

Etymology

From Old English brerd,^[1] from Proto-West Germanic *breʀd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz (“edge, shore”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /breːrd/^[2], /brɛːrd/
IPA^(key): /brøːrd/ (West Midland)

Noun

brerd (plural brerdes)

brim, rim (top edge)
edge, periphery, side

Related terms

bretful

Descendants

>? English: breward, bruart (dialectal)
Middle Scots: brerd, breird
- Scots: breird, braird
  - → English: braird

References

^ “brērd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ Aitken, A[dam] J., Macafee, Caroline, editors (2002), “Part One: Vowel Phonology of Scots to 1375”, in The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 3.1.1, page 8.

Old English

Alternative forms

breord, breard
briord — Anglian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *breʀd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz (“edge, shore”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brerd/, [brerˠd]

Noun

brerd m

brim, margin, rim
Synonym: brim
top of a pot or vessel
highest point of anything

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	brerd	brerdas
accusative	brerd	brerdas
genitive	brerdes	brerda
dative	brerde	brerdum

Descendants

Middle English: brerd, breerd, brerde, breord, brurd (West Midland), berde, brede (dissimilatory)
- >? English: breward, bruart (dialectal)
- Middle Scots: brerd, breird
  - Scots: breird, braird
    - → English: braird

References

Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “brerd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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