braut

See also: brauð and Braut

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯t

Verb

braut

1. inflection of brauen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prøyːt/
• Rhymes: -øyːt

Etymology 1

From Old Norse braut; cognate with Faroese breyt.

Noun

braut f (genitive singular brautar, nominative plural brautir)

1. path, course, way
2. (bowling) lane

Declension

Declension of braut (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	braut	brautin	brautir	brautirnar
accusative	braut	brautina	brautir	brautirnar
dative	braut	brautinni	brautum	brautunum
genitive	brautar	brautarinnar	brauta	brautanna

Derived terms

• aðalbraut (“main path, main route”)
• akbraut (“road, carriageway”)
• brautargengi (“support, assistance”)
• brautarstöð (“railway station”)
• brautryðjandi (“pioneer, trailblazer”)
• brautskrá (“to graduate”)
• flugbraut (“runway”)
• gangbraut (“pedestrian crossing”)
• hjólreiðabraut (“cycle path”)
• hraðbraut (“motorway, freeway, expressway”)
• járnbraut (“railway”)
• námsbraut (“course of study”)
• neðanjarðarbraut (“underground railway”)
• rennibraut (“slide”)
• sebrabraut (“zebra crossing”)
• sporbraut (“orbit”)
• vetrarbraut (“Milky Way; galaxy”)
• þjóðbraut (“highway, main road”)
• æfibraut (“course of life”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of brjóta (“to break”).

Verb

braut

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of brjóta

Luxembourgish

Verb

braut

1. inflection of brauen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

braut

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of bryte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse braut.

Noun

braut f (definite singular brauta, indefinite plural brauter, definite plural brautene)

1. path dug into the ground
2. slope

Etymology 2

Verb

braut

1. past tense of bryte

References

• “braut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brautō, derived from the verb *breutaną (“to break”) (hence Old Norse brjóta). For the semantic development, compare French route (“road”) from Latin rupta (via) (“broken way”).

Noun

braut f (genitive brautar, plural brautir)

1. road, cleared path

Declension

Declension of braut (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	braut	brautin	brautir	brautirnar
accusative	braut	brautina	brautir	brautirnar
dative	braut, brautu	brautinni, brautunni	brautum	brautunum
genitive	brautar	brautarinnar	brauta	brautanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: braut
• Faroese: breyt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: braut
• ⇒ Old Norse: braut, brott, burt (“away”)
  • Icelandic: braut, brott, burt
  • Faroese: burt
  • Norwegian: bort
  • Swedish: bort
  • Danish: burt

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “braut”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brọdr

Noun

braut m

1. brother
2. friar

Descendants

• Welsh: brawd

Noun

braut f

1. judgment, legal decision