brest

brest (plural brests)

1. Obsolete spelling of breast.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

• Streb

From Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą.

• breste, breost, breist, brost, brust, brist, breast, bryest

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /brøːst/
• IPA^(key): /breːst/
• (Late Middle English) IPA^(key): /brɛst/

brest (plural brestes or bresten)

1. chest, thorax
2. The breast in several contexts:
   1. breast (protrusion on the front of the chest)
   2. female breast (for nursing)
   3. breast (cut of meat)
   4. breast, heart (centre of emotional functioning)
3. breastplate, chest plate
4. womb
5. The front portion of a band or troop

• English: brest, breast
• Scots: brest, breist, breest

• “brẹ̄st, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

From Old Norse brestr, from Proto-Germanic *brestuz; influenced by the cognate Old English byrst. Doublet of burst.

• berst, barst

• IPA^(key): /brɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

brest (plural brestes)

1. A breaking or smashing.
2. A noise or clamour.
3. Damage or injury.
4. Neediness.

• English: bryst (obsolete)

• “brest, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

From Old Norse brestr.

brest m (definite singular bresten, indefinite plural brestar or brester, definite plural brestane or brestene)

1. a crack

   Det er ein brest i dette glaset.

   There is a crack in this glass.

2. a flaw

   Det er ein brest i logikken din.

   There is a flaw in your logic.

• “brest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• brist (Ikavian)
• brijest (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *berstъ.

brȇst m inan (Cyrillic spelling бре̑ст)

1. elm (tree)

From Proto-Slavic *berstъ.

• IPA^(key): /brèːst/, /bréːst/, /brɛ́st/

brẹ̄st or brȅst m inan

1. elm (tree)

• “brest”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “brest”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Middle Welsh brest, from Middle English brest. Compare Cornish brest.

• IPA^(key): /brɛsd/, [brɛst]
• Rhymes: -ɛsd

brest m or f (plural brestiau or brestau or brestydd or brestys)

1. breast, chest

   Synonyms: bron, mynwes

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “brest”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies