broun
Middle English
Alternative forms
- brown, brun, bruyn, broyn
Etymology
Old English brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bruːn/
Adjective
broun (inflected form broune)
- dark, dull, murky (in color)
- brown (of a brown color)
- brown-haired
- having brown skin
- (metal) bright, shining
Descendants
- English: brown
- Bislama: braon
- Tok Pisin: braun
- → Welsh: brown
- → Tongan: palauni
- Scots: broon, broun
References
- “brǒun (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Noun
broun
- brown (colour)
- brown-haired person
Descendants
- English: brown
- Bislama: braon
- Tok Pisin: braun
- → Welsh: brown
- → Tongan: palauni
- Scots: broon, broun
References
- “brǒun (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text) | ||||
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whit | grey, hor | blak | ||
red ; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre ; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry ; canevas | ||
grasgrene | grene | |||
plunket ; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers | ||
violet ; inde | rose, murrey ; purpel | claret |