бръзда

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *brъzda, whence Old Church Slavonic бръзда (brŭzda, “halter”), Czech brzda (“brake”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrɤzdɐ]

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бръ́зда • (brǎ́zda) f (dialectal)

1. (obsolete, originally) halter
2. part of the plow which connects the drawbar to the landside

The singular form has mostly gone out of use. Only the earlier dual бръзде (brǎzde) (often reanalyzed as a sg. neuter) is formally attested within dialects.

• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1908) “бръзде”, in Допълнение на българския рѣчникъ [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Plovdiv: Печатница "Трудъ" на Петко Бѣловѣждовъ, page 35
• “бръзда”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *brъzda, further origin uncertain: perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos, but a complicated Slavic etymology has also been proposed.

бръзда • (brŭzda) f

1. muzzle
2. halter

• Havlová, Eva, editor (1990), “brъzda”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 2 (blagъ – dělo), Prague: Academia, →ISBN, page 83
• “бръзда”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025