释义 |
bhreg- To break. Derivatives include breach, fraction, frail1, infringe, and suffrage.- break, from Old English brecan, to break;
- breach, from Old English brēc, a breaking;
- brash2, breccia, from Italian breccia, breccia, rubble, breach in a wall, from Old High German *brehha, from brehhan, to break;
- bray2, from Old French breier, to break;
- brioche, from Old French brier, dialectal variant of broyer, to knead. a-e all from Germanic *brekan.
- bracken, brake4, from Middle English brake(n), bracken, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *brakni, undergrowth;
- 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.
- suffragan, suffrage, from Latin suffrāgium, the right to vote, from suffrāgārī, to vote for (? < "to use a broken piece of tile as a ballot");
- irrefragable, from Latin refrāgārī, to vote against.
[Pokorny 1. bhreg̑‑ 165 (butg̑ not on good evidence).] |
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