braut

See also: brauð and Braut

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯t

Verb

braut

1. inflection of brauen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prøyːt/
• Rhymes: -øyːt

Etymology 1

From Old Norse braut; cognate with Faroese breyt.

Noun

braut f (genitive singular brautar, nominative plural brautir)

1. path, course, way
2. (bowling) lane

Declension

declension of braut

f-s2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	braut	brautin	brautir	brautirnar
accusative	braut	brautina	brautir	brautirnar
dative	braut	brautinni	brautum	brautunum
genitive	brautar	brautarinnar	brauta	brautanna

Derived terms

• aðalbraut (“main path, main route”)
• akbraut (“road, carriageway”)
• brautargengi (“support, assistance”)
• brautarstöð (“railway station”)
• brautryðjandi (“pioneer, trailblazer”)
• brautskrá (“to graduate”)
• flugbraut (“runway”)
• gangbraut (“pedestrian crossing”)
• hjólreiðabraut (“cycle path”)
• hraðbraut (“motorway, freeway, expressway”)
• járnbraut (“railway”)
• námsbraut (“course of study”)
• neðanjarðarbraut (“underground railway”)
• rennibraut (“slide”)
• sebrabraut (“zebra crossing”)
• sporbraut (“orbit”)
• vetrarbraut (“Milky Way; galaxy”)
• þjóðbraut (“highway, main road”)
• æfibraut (“course of life”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of brjóta (“to break”).

Verb

braut

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of brjóta

Luxembourgish

Verb

braut

1. inflection of brauen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

braut

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of bryte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse braut.

Noun

braut f (definite singular brauta, indefinite plural brauter, definite plural brautene)

1. path dug into the ground
2. slope

Etymology 2

Verb

braut

1. past tense of bryte

References

• “braut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brautō, derived from the verb *breutaną (“to break”) (hence Old Norse brjóta). For the semantic development, compare French route (“road”) from Latin rupta (via) (“broken way”).

Noun

braut f (genitive brautar, plural brautir)

1. road, cleared path

Declension

  Declension of braut (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	braut	brautin	brautir	brautirnar
accusative	braut	brautina	brautir	brautirnar
dative	braut, brautu	brautinni, brautunni	brautum	brautunum
genitive	brautar	brautarinnar	brauta	brautanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: braut
• Faroese: breyt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: braut
• ⇒ Old Norse: braut, brott, burt (“away”)
  • Icelandic: braut, brott, burt
  • Faroese: burt
  • Norwegian: bort
  • Swedish: bort
  • Danish: burt

References

• “braut”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Welsh

Noun

braut m

1. brother
2. friar

Descendants

• Welsh: brawd

Noun

braut f

1. judgment, legal decision