Брянск

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic Дьбрꙗньскъ (Dĭbrjanĭskŭ), from the word дъбрь (dŭbrĭ), дьбрь (dĭbrĭ, “valley”) from Proto-Slavic *dьbrь (“valley, ravine”) now Russian де́бри m pl (débri), the first consonant of which in the oikonym had to be lost to simplify the cluster resulting from Havlík's law.

Other formations from the same noun include Брынь (Brynʹ), the name of a river in a neighbouring province, a historical Брыньскъ (Brynĭskŭ) in Volhynia, apparently the current village Бринь (Brynʹ) in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and various Polish settlement and waterbody names Bryń, Brynica ^WP, Breń ^WP, whence the family name Bryński.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [brʲansk]

Proper noun

Брянск • (Brjansk) m inan (genitive Бря́нска, relational adjective бря́нский)

1. Bryansk (a city, the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia)

Declension

Declension of Брянск (inan sg-only masc-form velar-stem accent-a) 

	singular
nominative	Бря́нск Brjánsk
genitive	Бря́нска Brjánska
dative	Бря́нску Brjánsku
accusative	Бря́нск Brjánsk
instrumental	Бря́нском Brjánskom
prepositional	Бря́нске Brjánske

Related terms

• бря́нец (brjánec), бря́нка (brjánka)
• брянча́нин (brjančánin), брянча́нка (brjančánka)

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2011) “Брынские леса”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 4 (боле – бтарь), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 303, cf. Брянские леса
• Anikin, A. E. (2011) “Брянск”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 4 (боле – бтарь), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 320