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Middle English
Noun
breost (plural breostes or breosten)
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of brest (“breast”)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Cognate with Old Frisian briāst, Old Saxon briost, Old Norse brjóst.
Pronunciation
Noun
brēost n
- chest
- breast
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 13, verse 25
Witodlīce þā hē hlinode ofer ðæs Hǣlendes brēostum, hē cwæð tō him, Drihten, hwæt ys hē?- Certainly when he leaned over the Healer's (Jesus') breasts, he said to him, Lord, who is he?
- heart (seat of emotions located in the chest area)
Declension
Usual (neuter) declension:
Declension of brēost (strong a-stem)
Occasionally it occurs as feminine:
Declension of brēost (strong ō-stem)
Descendants