brin

See also: Brin and brīn

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

brin (plural brins)

1. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

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2. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• IBNR, RNIB

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French

Etymology

Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinikā, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broen-enn, Welsh brwyn-en).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛ̃/

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• IPA^(key): [bɾæ̃]
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Noun

brin m (plural brins)

1. blade (of grass)
2. sprig, twig
3. wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
4. (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint

See also

• fétu
• touffe

Further reading

• “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 257, 258
• “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
• Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
• “brin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bregn
• (Puter, Vallader) brün

Etymology

From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining, brown”).

Adjective

brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brín/

Noun

brȉn m inan

1. juniper

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	brìn
gen. sing.	brína
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	brìn	brína	bríni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	brína	brínov	brínov
dative (dajȃlnik)	brínu	brínoma	brínom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	brìn	brína	bríne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	brínu	brínih	brínih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	brínom	brínoma	bríni