Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brīw

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brīw

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown; possibly from Proto-Germanic *brīwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréy-u-s ~ *bʰr̥y-éw-s, from *bʰr-ey-, from *bʰer- (“to boil”), cognate with Latin frīgō (“to roast”), Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “to roast”).[1]

Noun

*brīw m

1. porridge, mash

   Synonym: *mōs

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*brīw
Genitive	*brīwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*brīw	*brīwō, *brīwōs
Accusative	*brīw	*brīwā
Genitive	*brīwas	*brīwō
Dative	*brīwē	*brīwum
Instrumental	*brīwu	*brīwum

Alternative reconstructions

• *brīu

Descendants

• Old English: brīw, brīu, brīġ, briiw, briiġ
  • Middle English: breie, bre
    • Scots: brie
    • English: bree
• Old Frisian: *brī
  • Saterland Frisian: Bräi
  • West Frisian: brij
• Old Saxon: brī
  • Middle Low German: brî, brîg
    • German Low German:

      Märkisch, North Low German, Westphalian: Brie

      East Frisian Low Saxon: Breei

      Low Prussian, Westphalian (Sauerländisch): Brei

      Westphalian:

      Sauerländisch: Brui (Kirchspiel Mülheim), Braue (Niedersfeld), Broi (Meschede)

• Old Dutch: *brio, *brī
  • Middle Dutch: brî, bry
    • Dutch: brij
• Old High German: brīo, brī, brīwo
  • Middle High German: brîe, brî
    • German: Brei
    • Luxembourgish: Bräi
    • Yiddish: ברײַ‎ (bray)

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Brei”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 104