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Lithuanian
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *breun-; see also English preen, Albanian brez.
Noun
briaunà f (plural briaũnos) stress pattern 4 (diminutive briaunẽlė)
- verge, brim
- puodo briauna - a brim of a pot
- edge
- peilio briauna - an edge of a knife
- crumb
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References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “briauna”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 36.
- ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN