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Albanian
Etymology
From *bren + -ëz, possibly from Proto-Albanian *breuna, from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (compare Old English prēon (“pin, brooch needle”), Lithuanian briaunà (“edge”)). Lent Romanian brâu ~ dialectal brân.
Noun
brez m (plural breza, definite brezi, definite plural brezat)
- belt, girdle, waistband
- sash
- waistline, midriff
- (by extension) climatic zone
- (by extension) generation, bloodline
brezi i ri- the younger generation
Declension
Related terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “brez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 36.
- ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Preposition
brez (Cyrillic spelling брез) (+ genitive case)
- (Croatia, Kajkavian, Chakavian) without
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.
Pronunciation
Preposition
brez
- (with genitive) without
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
brez
- genitive dual/plural of breza
Further reading
- “brez”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran