brant

See also: Brant and bränt

English

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /bɹænt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

Medieval Latin Branta, Latinized form of Old Norse brandgás, brandgas (“sheldrake”).

Noun

brant (plural brants or brant)

1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:

     I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

Translations

wild geese of the genus Branta

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• Dutch: zwarte gans f, zeegans f
• Finnish: kirjohanhi
• French: bernarche f
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• Greenlandic: nerlernaq
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• Russian: каза́рка (ru) f (kazárka)
• Spanish: barnacla f
• Swedish: brantagås c

Further reading

• brant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Branta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Old English brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

Alternative forms

• brent

Adjective

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)

1. (dialectal) Steep, precipitous.
   • Ascham

     Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.

2. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
   • Burns

     Your bonnie brow was brent.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.

Noun

brant m

1. fire
2. burning piece of wood
3. firewood, fuel
4. burn (mark on the skin or something else)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• brand

Derived terms

• branden

Descendants

• Dutch: brand
• Limburgish: brandj

Further reading

• “brant (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “brant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• brente (transitive)

Verb

brant

1. intransitive simple past of brenne

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Old English

Alternative forms

• bront

Etymology

Cognate with Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /brɑnt/

Adjective

brant

1. tall, high, steep

Descendants

• English: brant
• Scots: brent

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Old French

Noun

brant oblique singular, m (oblique plural branz or brantz, nominative singular branz or brantz, nominative plural brant)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of branc

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Old Norse

Noun

brant ?

1. (Eastern dialect) precipice

References

• Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse brantr, brattr. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)

1. steep (near-vertical)

Declension

Inflection of brant
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	brant	brantare	brantast
Neuter singular	brant	brantare	brantast
Plural	branta	brantare	brantast
Masculine plural3	brante	brantare	brantast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	brante	brantare	brantaste
All	branta	brantare	brantaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms

• branthet

See also

• bråd

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Vilamovian

Noun

brant m

1. fire, blaze
2. gangrene
3. grain smut