breda

breda (plural breda dem, quantified breda)

1. Alternative spelling of bredda

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

brêdâ ?

1. Breda (a city in the modern Netherlands)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Breda

• “breda”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

From Proto-West Germanic *brādan, from Proto-Germanic *brēdaną.

brēda

1. to roast

• West Frisian: briede

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

breda

1. inflection of bred:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From Old Swedish brēþa, from Old Norse breiða, from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną.

breda (present breder, preterite bredde, supine brett, imperative bred)

2. to spread

   Smittan breder ut sig

   The infection is spreading

   Hon brer sylt på mackan

   She spreads jam on the sandwich

   bre mjukost på en macka

   put cheese spread on a sandwich

3. to butter (a sandwich)

   Han brer mackan

   He butters the sandwich

4. (by extension) to make (a sandwich, including adding any toppings or fillings (which the butter is not considered as – sandwiches are almost always buttered in Swedish cuisine))

   Hon gick till köket och bredde sig en macka

   She went to the kitchen and made herself a (buttered) sandwich

5. (with på) to lay it on (thick)
6. (with på) to deliberately speak with a broad dialect

The apocopic form bre is more common than breda in senses besides (sense 1) (where bre is still more common for spreading something on a sandwich). See also the usage notes for smöra (“to butter”).

• bredbar (“spreadable”)

• breda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• breda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• breda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• bedra