bremo

Galician

Verb

bremo

first-person singular present indicative of bremar

Old High German

Etymology

From the verb *breman, from Proto-West Germanic *breman (“to hum, drone”).^[1] According to Kluge, Duden, and Pokorny, this is related to the root of modern brummen (“to hum, growl”), which is *brummōn.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Related to Old Saxon brimissa. Also compare *bramjaną (“to roar”).

Noun

bremo m

gadfly

Descendants

German: Bremse

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “bremisa/on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75
^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Breme”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
^ “bremo” in Duden online
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “142-43”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 142-43

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “bremisa/on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75

[2] Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Breme”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

[3] “bremo” in Duden online

[4] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “142-43”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 142-43

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