bruyère

French

Etymology

From Old French bruiere, from Latin brugaria, used in Latin for heather in several medieval texts, probably from Gaulish *bruco, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (compare Breton brug, Welsh/Cornish grug, and Irish fraoch).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɥi.jɛʁ/
• Homophone: bruyères

Noun

bruyère f (plural bruyères)

1. Heather, brier.
2. A place of briers, a moor.

Further reading

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