braut
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aʊ̯t
Verb
braut
- inflection of brauen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prøyːt/
- Rhymes: -øyːt
Etymology 1
From Old Norse braut; cognate with Faroese breyt.
Noun
braut f (genitive singular brautar, nominative plural brautir)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | braut | brautin | brautir | brautirnar |
| accusative | braut | brautina | brautir | brautirnar |
| dative | braut | brautinni | brautum | brautunum |
| genitive | brautar | brautarinnar | brauta | brautanna |
Derived terms
- aðalbraut (“main path, main route”)
- akbraut (“road, carriageway”)
- brautargengi (“support, assistance”)
- brautarstöð (“railway station”)
- brautryðjandi (“pioneer, trailblazer”)
- brautskrá (“to graduate”)
- flugbraut (“runway”)
- gangbraut (“pedestrian crossing”)
- hjólreiðabraut (“cycle path”)
- hraðbraut (“motorway, freeway, expressway”)
- járnbraut (“railway”)
- námsbraut (“course of study”)
- neðanjarðarbraut (“underground railway”)
- rennibraut (“slide”)
- sebrabraut (“zebra crossing”)
- sporbraut (“orbit”)
- vetrarbraut (“Milky Way; galaxy”)
- þjóðbraut (“highway, main road”)
- æfibraut (“course of life”)
Etymology 2
Inflected form of brjóta (“to break”).
Verb
braut
- first/third-person singular past indicative of brjóta
Luxembourgish
Verb
braut
- inflection of brauen:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
braut
- (non-standard since 2005) past tense of bryte
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Noun
braut f (definite singular brauta, indefinite plural brauter, definite plural brautene)
Etymology 2
Verb
braut
- past tense of bryte
References
- “braut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brautō, derived from the verb *breutaną (“to break”) (hence Old Norse brjóta). For the semantic development, compare French route (“road”) from Latin rupta (via) (“broken way”).
Noun
braut f (genitive brautar, plural brautir)
Declension
| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | braut | brautin | brautir | brautirnar |
| accusative | braut | brautina | brautir | brautirnar |
| dative | braut, brautu | brautinni, brautunni | brautum | brautunum |
| genitive | brautar | brautarinnar | brauta | brautanna |
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “braut”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *brọdr
Noun
braut m
Descendants
- Welsh: brawd
Noun
braut f
- judgment, legal decision