bruar

bruar

Galician

FWOTD – 12 July 2017

Alternative forms

• broar, bruiar, bruxar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese bruyar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *brugāre if cognate to French bruire (“to roar”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾuˈaɾ/

Verb

bruar (first-person singular present brúo, first-person singular preterite bruei, past participle bruado)

1. (intransitive) Of a bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound, specially when on heat or angry; to bellow

   Synonyms: bruír, burdiar, reburdiar

2. (intransitive) to roar (to emit a deep and long sound such as the voice of a large animal)

   Synonyms: bradar, bramar, zoar

3. to grunt (also figuratively)
   • 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia, page 9:

     ti ves cómo brúa un xabalín cando se ve acosado dos càs? pois así dice que che bruaba, e pateaba ese Sul

     Do you know how a wild boar grunts when hounded by the dogs? so they say that this Sul [a French Napoleonic general] grunted and floundered

4. (of the wind) to howl; to hum

   Synonym: zoar

5. to blow a horn

   Synonym: ornear

Conjugation

Conjugation of bruar

	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	first	second	third
Infinitive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
impersonal	bruar
personal	bruar	bruares	bruar	bruarmos	bruardes	bruaren
Gerund
	bruando
Past participle	singular			plural
masculine	bruado			bruados
feminine	bruada			bruadas
Indicative	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	brúo	brúas	brúa	bruamos	bruades	brúan
imperfect	bruaba	bruabas	bruaba	bruabamos	bruabades	bruaban
preterite	bruei	bruaches	bruou	bruamos	bruastes	bruaron
pluperfect	bruara	bruaras	bruara	bruaramos	bruarades	bruaran
future	bruarei	bruarás	bruará	bruaremos	bruaredes	bruarán
conditional	bruaría	bruarías	bruaría	bruariamos	bruariades	bruarían
Subjunctive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	brúe	brúes	brúe	bruemos	bruedes	brúen
preterite	bruase	bruases	bruase	bruásemos	bruásedes	bruasen
future	bruar	bruares	bruar	bruarmos	bruardes	bruaren
Imperative	–	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
affirmative	–	brúa	brúe	bruemos	bruade	brúen
negative	–	brúes	brúe	bruemos	bruedes	brúen

Derived terms

• brúa
• bruazo
• bruión
• brúo

Related terms

• bruír

References

• “bruyar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bruy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bruar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bruyar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bruar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bruar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “ruido”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos