бръвь

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• бровь (brovĭ)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *brū́ˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs.

Noun

бръвь (brŭvĭ) f

1. eyebrow

Descendants

• Belarusian: брыво (bryvó)
• Russian: бровь (brovʹ)
• Ukrainian: брова́ (brová)

References

• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “бръвь”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 181