Brodem
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]With widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- from Middle High German brādem, from Old High German brādam, from Proto-West Germanic *brāþm, pointing to Proto-Germanic *brēþmaz, probably a secondary alteration of *brēþiz by conflation with *ēþmaz, whence German Atem, Odem. Cognate with English breath.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Brodem m (strong, genitive Brodems, no plural)
- (dated, literary) vapor
- (dated, literary) strong smell
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
- Einer raucht einen beißenden Tabak, und man wittert die Soldatenatmosphäre, die überall auf der ganzen Welt gleich war: den Brodem von Leder, Schweiß, Heu, Essensgeruch, Tabak und Menschenausdünstung.
- One smokes a stinging tabacco and you scent the soldier's atmosphere that was the same everywhere in the whole world: the strong smell of leather, sweat, hay, smell of food, tobacco and human perspiration.
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 485:
- Eine wohlgewachsene Tanne war schon einige Tage zuvor an der rechten Schmalseite des Speisesaals, beim Schlechten Russentisch, aufgerichtet worden, und ihr Duft, der durch den Brodem der reichen Gänge hindurch die Speisenden zuweilen berührte, rief etwas wie Nachdenklichkeit in den Augen einzelner Personen an den sieben Tischen hervor.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
Declension
[edit]Declension of Brodem [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Brodem” in Duden online
- “Brodem” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Brodem” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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