brestr

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brestuz (“fracture, impairment”), a u-stem, reanalyzed as an i-stem.

Pronunciation

  • (12th Century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbres.tr̩/

Noun

brestr m

  1. chink, crack
  2. want, loss, lack

Declension

Declension of brestr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative brestr brestrinn brestir brestirnir
accusative brest brestinn bresti brestina
dative brest brestinum brestum brestunum
genitive brests brestsins bresta brestanna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: brestur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: brest
  • Danish: brist c
    • Norwegian Bokmål: brist m
  • → Middle English: brest, berst, barst

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “brestr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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