bregne

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Danish brækne, from Old Norse (related to Swedish bräken (“fern”)), from Proto-Germanic *brak- (“bushes, undergrowth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brajnə/, [ˈb̥ʁɑjnə]

Noun

bregne c (singular definite bregnen, plural indefinite bregner)

1. fern
2. bracken

Inflection

Declension of bregne

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bregne	bregnen	bregner	bregnerne
genitive	bregnes	bregnens	bregners	bregnernes

References

• “bracken”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “bregne” in Gammeldansk Ordbog

Further reading

• bregne on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Danish bregne, English bracken, and Swedish bräken

Noun

bregne f or m (definite singular bregna or bregnen, indefinite plural bregner, definite plural bregnene)

1. a fern

References

• “bregne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to Danish bregne, English bracken, and Swedish bräken

Noun

bregne m (definite singular bregnen, indefinite plural bregnar, definite plural bregnane)

1. a fern

References

• “bregne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.