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Middle English
- brenge, bring, bringe, bringen, bringge, bringue, brinken, bryng, brynge, bryngge, bryngyn
- brinngenn (Ormulum)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-.
Pronunciation
Verb
bryngen (third-person singular simple present bryngeth, present participle bryngynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative broghte, past participle broght)
- to bring; to (physically) convey or deliver towards
- to deliver or provide (news, an argument, etc.)
- to put; to set or bring onto.
c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng […]- All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar
- to bring about; to create; to occasion:
- to supply, contribute; to provide with
- to bring, lead (in(to) or out (of) a quality)
- to modify (something) into (something else)
- (rare) to cause (to do); to induce
Usage notes
- This verb is often used as part of phrasal verb constructions.
- The analogical strong class 3 past forms found in Old English (brang, brungen) and nonstandard modern English (brang, brung) are not known in Middle English; since this verb is reasonably common, it is therefore likely they did not exist.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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