bringan

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-.

bringan

1. to bring

• Middle Dutch: bringen
  • Dutch: brengen, bringen (dialectal)
    • Afrikaans: bring
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bringgi
    • Negerhollands: breng, bring, briṅ
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: brink
    • →? Sranan Tongo: bringi
  • Limburgish: bringe
  • West Flemish: bringen

• “bringan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrin.ɡɑn/, [ˈbriŋ.ɡɑn]

bringan

1. to bring
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎^[1]:

     Iċ…, eald ǣfensċeōp, eorlum bringe blisse in burgum.

     I…, old evening scop, bring bliss in towns for brave men.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ ēac þætte þrīe wulfas on ānre niht brōhton ānes dēades monnes līċhoman binnan þā burg, ⁊ hiene þær siþþan tōbrugdon, oþ þā men onwōcan, ⁊ ūt urnon, ⁊ hīe siþþan āweġ flugon.

     And on one night, three wolves brought the body of a dead man into the city, and then tore it to pieces, until the people awoke and ran out, and they ran away.

   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     Him mon brōhte gold tō ġefe, on þǣm wæs ġetācnod þæt hē wæs sōð cyning. Ōðer him brōhte reċels, on þǣm wæs ġetācnod þæt hē wæs sōð god. Sē þridda him brōhte myrran þā wyrt, on þǣm wæs ġetācnod þæt hē wæs dēadlīċ mon, ond þæt hē þurh his ānes dēað ealle ġelēaffulle men ġefrēode fram ēċum dēade.

     One man brought gold to give to him, which signified that he was a true king. The second brought him incense, which signified that he was the true god. The third brought him the myrrh-plant, which signified that he was a mortal man, and that through his death alone, he freed all faithful men from eternal death.

• No strong preterite forms of this verb are attested, or any of its derivatives, except for the past participle brungen. The rest of the preterite conjugation is borrowed from the closely related, and largely synonymous, verb brenġan, including the more common past participle ġebrōht

• forþbringan
• ġebringan
• inbringan

• Middle English: bryngen
  • English: bring
  • Scots: bring

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “bringan”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

• pringan

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, whence also Old Saxon brengian, Old Dutch bringan, Old Frisian brenga, Old English bringan, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan).

bringan

1. to bring

• Middle High German: bringen
  • Alemannic German: bringe
  • Cimbrian: prengen
  • Central Franconian: brenge

    Hunsrik: bringe

    Luxembourgish: bréngen

  • German: bringen
  • Rhine Franconian: brenge, bringe

    Frankfurterisch: [pʀiŋg̥ə], (older) [pʀeŋə]

    Pennsylvania German: bringe

  • Vilamovian: brengia
  • Yiddish: ברענגען (brengen)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

bringan

1. alternative form of brengian

bringan

1. definite singular of bringa