brine
English
/bɹaɪn/
noun
Definitions
- Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
- The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English brine inherited from Old English brīne inherited from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (maim, cut, pierce, scrape), *mriHnós.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mriHnós
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- brineless English
- briner English
- brinily English
- brininess English
- brinish English
- briny English
- debrine English
- embrine English
- rosemary English
- unbriny English
- frio Latin
- frivolus Latin
- marīnus Latin
- rosmarinus Latin
- marin German
- marinare Italian
- marino Italian
- brijn Dutch, Flemish
- marin French
- marine French
- marino Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰreyH- Proto-Indo-European
- *mriHnós Proto-Indo-European
- *móri Proto-Indo-European
- marin Norwegian Bokmål
- *brīnijaz Proto-Germanic
- marin Norwegian Nynorsk
- brine Old English
- brīne Old English
- भ्री Sanskrit
- brine Middle English
- marin Danish
- *brìti Proto-Slavic
- marin Old French
- marí Catalan, Valencian
- brine Middle Dutch
- brej Albanian
- marinno Old Portuguese
- marỹeiro Old Portuguese
- marin Occitan
- brein Western Frisian
- brein Old Frisian
- *brainja Proto-Albanian
- βρειτ Phrygian