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bremo

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Galician

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Verb

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bremo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bremar

Old High German

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Etymology

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From the verb *breman, from Proto-West Germanic *breman (to hum, drone).[1] According to Kluge, Duden, and Pokorny, this is related to the root of modern brummen (to hum, growl), which is *brummōn.[2][3][4]

Related to Old Saxon brimissa. Also compare *bramjaną (to roar).

Noun

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bremo m

  1. gadfly

Descendants

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  • German: Bremse

References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “bremisa/on”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Breme”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
  3. ^ bremo” in Duden online
  4. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “142-43”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 142-43