Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bremusī

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Alternative forms

• *brimusī, *brimsī

Noun

*bremusī f

1. gadfly
2. horsefly

Inflection

ī/jō-stemDeclension of *bremusī (ī/jō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bremusī	*bremusijôz
vocative	*bremusī	*bremusijôz
accusative	*bremusijǭ	*bremusijōz
genitive	*bremusijōz	*bremusijǫ̂
dative	*bremusijōi	*bremusijōmaz
instrumental	*bremusijō	*bremusijōmiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *bremussju
  • Old English: brimsa, brēosa
    • Middle English: brimse, brese
      • English: breeze
  • Old Saxon: brimissa
    • Middle Low German: brēmse
      • German Low German: Bremse, Brems
      • → German: Bremse
  • Old Dutch: *brimissa
    • Middle Dutch: bremse, breemse
      • Dutch: brems
  • Old High German: brimissa, brema
    • Middle High German: breme
      • German: Breme (archaic)
• Old Norse: brims
  • Icelandic: brims
  • Norwegian: brems
  • Old Swedish: brims, bryms
    • Swedish: bröms, broms (influenced by dialectal bromma (“to hum”))
  • Old Danish: brims, brimse
    • Danish: brems (now nonstandard), bremse