brott

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See also: Brott and brọtt

Icelandic

Etymology

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Adverb

brott

  1. away, off
    Synonym: burt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse brot.

Pronunciation

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Noun

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta or brottene)

  1. Alternative form of brudd

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta)

  1. Alternative form of brot

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Norse brot, from Proto-Germanic *brutą, derived from the verb *breutaną (cf. Swedish bryta).

Pronunciation

Noun

brott n

  1. a break, a snap; an instance of something breaking
  2. a breaking, a fracture; the point where something has broken
  3. a crime (act that breaks the law)
    Nisse begick ett brott
    Nisse committed a crime
    ett grovt brott
    a serious crime
  4. (chiefly in compounds) a quarry (where minerals are "broken" out of rock)
  5. a breaker (wave breaking into foam (indicating an underwater hazard))
    • 1971, Contact (lyrics and music), “Fyrvaktarns dotter [The lighthouse keeper's daughter]”, in Utmarker [Outfields]‎:
      Fyrvaktarn seglar sin dotter mot land, till bröllop i vårstormens hotfulla dån. Blicken har skumnat, han ser inte brotten. Kostern går under, ett skrik genom stormen. Och klockorna hörs vagt från kyrkan i Dyrö. De ringer för fyrvaktarns dotter.
      The lighthouse keeper sails his daughter toward land, to a weeding in the menacing roar of the spring storm. His gaze has clouded, he cannot see the breakers. The koster goes down, a scream through the storm. And the bells are dimly heard from the church in Dyrö. They are ringing for the lighthouse keeper's daughter.
  6. (by extension, usually in the plural) a shoal, a shallow (place where breakers regularly occur)

Declension

Declension of brott
nominative genitive
singular indefinite brott brotts
definite brottet brottets
plural indefinite brott brotts
definite brotten brottens

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