brein

See also: bréin

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brein, next to the more common bragen, bregen, from Old Dutch *bragan, *bregin, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną.

Cognate with West Frisian brein, Low German Bregen, Brägen, English brain.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /brɛi̯n/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: brein
  • Rhymes: -ɛi̯n

Noun

brein n (plural breinen, diminutive breintje n)

  1. brain
  2. mastermind

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brú, broinn (“abdomen, belly; bowels, entrails; womb”).

Noun

brein f (genitive singular breinney)

  1. (anatomy) (human) uterus, womb, matrix

Derived terms
  • beeal ny breinney, mhuinneel ny breinney (“cervix”)
  • brein lhuingey (“hold”)
  • brein ny thallooin (“bowels of the earth”)
  • çhingys breinney (“womb illness”)
  • cowrey breinney (“birthmark”)
  • gorley breinney (“hysteria”)
  • kanghyr ny breinney (“uterine cancer”)
  • veih'n vrein (“congenital”)

Mutation
Manx mutation
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breinvreinmrein
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English brain.

Noun

brein

  1. brain

Volapük

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɾeˈin/

Noun

brein (nominative plural breins)

  1. brain

Declension
declension of brein
singular plural
nominative brein breins
genitive breina breinas
dative breine breines
accusative breini breinis
vocative 1 o brein! o breins!
predicative 2 breinu breinus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian brein, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną.

Noun

brein n (plural breinen)

  1. brain
  2. (figuratively) mind, intellect
Further reading
  • “brein (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri.

Noun

brein n (no plural)

  1. brine; solution for pickling
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • breinsâlt
Further reading
  • “brein (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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