brein

See also: bréin

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brein, next to the more common bragen, bregen, from Old Dutch *bragan, *bregin, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną.

Cognate with West Frisian brein, Low German Bregen, Brägen, English brain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɛi̯n/

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• Hyphenation: brein
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯n

Noun

brein n (plural breinen, diminutive breintje n)

1. brain
2. mastermind

Synonyms

• (brain): hersenen

Derived terms

• breinbaas
• breinloos

Anagrams

• berin

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brú, broinn (“abdomen, belly; bowels, entrails; womb”).

Noun

brein f (genitive singular breinney)

1. (anatomy) (human) uterus, womb, matrix

Derived terms

• beeal ny breinney, mhuinneel ny breinney (“cervix”)
• brein lhuingey (“hold”)
• brein ny thallooin (“bowels of the earth”)
• çhingys breinney (“womb illness”)
• cowrey breinney (“birthmark”)
• gorley breinney (“hysteria”)
• kanghyr ny breinney (“uterine cancer”)
• veih'n vrein (“congenital”)

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brein	vrein	mrein
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English brain.

Noun

brein

1. brain

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈin/

Noun

brein (nominative plural breins)

1. brain

Declension

declension of brein

	singular	plural
nominative	brein	breins
genitive	breina	breinas
dative	breine	breines
accusative	breini	breinis
vocative 1	o brein!	o breins!
predicative 2	breinu	breinus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian brein, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną.

Noun

brein n (plural breinen)

1. brain
2. (figuratively) mind, intellect

Further reading

• “brein (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri.

Noun

brein n (no plural)

1. brine; solution for pickling

Alternative forms

• brem
• brim

Derived terms

• breinsâlt

Further reading

• “brein (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011