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bher-2
Bright, brown. - Suffixed variant form *bhrū-no‑.
- brown, from Old English brūn, brown;
- bruin, from Middle Dutch bruun;
- brunet, burnet, burnish, from Old French brun, shining, brown. a-c all from Germanic *brūnaz.
- Reduplicated form *bhibhru‑, *bhebhru‑, "the brown animal," beaver. beaver1, from Old English be(o)for, beaver, from Germanic *bebruz.
- bear2, from Old English bera, bear, from Germanic *berō, "the brown animal," bear.
- berserker, perhaps from Old Norse björn, bear, from Germanic *bernuz.
[Pokorny 5. bher‑ 136.] |
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