bräken

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Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Swedish brækne, from Old Norse *brakni (“undergrowth”), related to Proto-Germanic *brekaną and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”).[1] Compare Danish bregne, English bracken.

Noun

bräken c

  1. A fern, especially the bracken fern Pteris aquilina.

References

  1. ^ “bracken”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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