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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenḱ- (“to deviate, corrupt, fall off”). Cognate with pränk- (“to stay away, restrain oneself”), Sanskrit भ्रंश् (bhraṃś, “to fall, deviate”), and perhaps Old Irish bréc (“lie”).
Noun
prenke
- island
References
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 209, page 127; reprinted 2017