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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *brāan (“to smoke, fume; to smell”) + *-þi.[1]
Noun
*brāþi m
- vapour, steam
- (Anglo-Frisian Germanic) odour, smell
- (Anglo-Frisian Germanic) breath
Inflection
| i-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*brāþi
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| Genitive
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*brāþī
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*brāþi
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*brāþī
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| Accusative
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*brāþi
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*brāþī
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| Genitive
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*brāþī
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*brāþijō
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| Dative
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*brāþī
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*brāþim, *brāþijum
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| Instrumental
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*brāþī
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*brāþim, *brāþijum
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*brēan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 74–75: “*brēþi-”
