英语词汇“Indo-European root: bhreg-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: bhreg-

释义

‌‌bhreg-
To break.
Derivatives include breach, fraction, frail¹, infringe, and suffrage.

1. break, from Old English brecan, to break;
2. breach, from Old English brēc, a breaking;
3. brash², breccia, from Italian breccia, breccia, rubble, breach in a wall, from Old High German *brehha, from brehhan, to break;
4. bray², from Old French breier, to break;
5. brioche, from Old French brier, dialectal variant of broyer, to knead. a-e all from Germanic *brekan.
1. bracken, brake⁴, from Middle English brake(n), bracken, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *brakni, undergrowth;
2. brake⁵, from Middle Low German brake, thicket. Both a and b from Germanic *brak‑, bushes (< "that which impedes motion").
brake², from Middle Low German brake, flax brake, from Germanic *brāk‑, crushing instruments.
Nasalized zero-grade form *bhr̥-n-g‑. fractal, fracted, fraction, fractious, fracture, fragile, fragment, frail¹, frangible; anfractuous, chamfer, defray, diffraction, infract, infrangible, infringe, irrefrangible, ossifrage, refract, refrain², refringent, sassafras, saxifrage, from Latin frangere, to break.
1. suffragan, suffrage, from Latin suffrāgium, the right to vote, from suffrāgārī, to vote for (? < "to use a broken piece of tile as a ballot");
2. irrefragable, from Latin refrāgārī, to vote against.

[Pokorny 1. bhreg̑‑ 165 (butg̑ not on good evidence).]

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