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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").
  1. brake2, from Middle Low German brake, flax brake, from Germanic *brāk‑, crushing instruments.
  2. 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 (but not on good evidence).]
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