braiw

Low German

Noun

braiw m (plural braiws)

1. (Brazilian Pomerian) letter

   Ik srijw dij deisa braiw taum dij sägen duu büst air gaur määka.

   I am writing this letter to say that you are a nice girl.

   Ik wait, dat feel lüür sich up Pomerisch braiws srijwa, tüschen hijr un Rondônia.

   I know that a lot of people write letters to each other in Pomeranian, between here and Rondônia.

Further reading

• Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 83 & 217