brabant

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *brākbant (attested in Medieval Latin as pāgus brācbatensis, Bracbantum, Bracbantia), from Frankish, a compound of Proto-Germanic *brēk-, *brekaną (“fallow, originally 'to break'”) + *bant-, *bantō, *banti (“district, region”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰonHdeₕ₂-, *bʰonHdos- (“useful, beneficial, good”), from *bʰHdús-.

Compare modern Dutch braak (“fallow”) and Lithuanian bandà (“herd, flock”).

Noun

brâbant ?

1. Brabant (a duchy)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Brabant

References

• Belgian Laces, Volumes 15-19, p. 58

Further reading

• “brabant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000