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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bruskaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrūs‑, *bʰrews‑ (“to roar, roil, rustle, sprout”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrus.kɑz/
Noun
*bruskaz m
- scrub, undergrowth, underbrush
- thicket, copse
- sprout, shoot; twig
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *bruskaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *bruskaz | *bruskōz, *bruskōs | |
vocative | *brusk | *bruskōz, *bruskōs | |
accusative | *bruską | *bruskanz | |
genitive | *bruskas, *bruskis | *bruskǫ̂ | |
dative | *bruskai | *bruskamaz | |
instrumental | *bruskō | *bruskamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *brusk
- Old Saxon: *brusk
- Middle Low German: brusch (“bucher's broom”)
- Old Dutch: *brusk
- Middle Dutch: brusc m (“shrubs, twigs, bundle of sticks”)
- Old High German: brusk n (“shoot, bud”)
- Middle High German: brüsch m (“thorny bush”)
- German: Brüsch
- Middle High German: brüsch m (“thorny bush”)
- → Vulgar Latin: *bruscus (“butcher's broom”)
- Italian: brusco (“prickly broom”)
- → Occitan: brusc
- → French: brusc
- → Occitan: brusc
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *bruscia (“tree shoot”)
- Old French: broce (“scrub, brushwood, undergrowth”)
- Middle French: broisse
- French: brosse
- → Middle English: brusche, brusshe
- English: brush
- Middle French: broisse
- Old French: broce (“scrub, brushwood, undergrowth”)
- Italian: brusco (“prickly broom”)
- Old Saxon: *brusk