broun
Middle English
/bruːn/
adj
Definitions
- dark, dull, murky (in color)
- brown (of a brown color)
- brown-haired
- having brown skin
- (metal) bright, shining
Etymology
Inherited from Old English brūn (brown, dusky, dark) inherited from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (brown, grey).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*brūnaz
Gloss
brown, grey
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
褐
Emoji
🐻 🤎
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Browncoat English
- Brownshirt English
- anti-brown English
- broon English
- brown English
- brown-bill English
- brown-haired English
- brownable English
- brownback English
- browneye English
- brownface English
- brownfield English
- brownie English
- brownification English
- brownify English
- brownish English
- brownly English
- brownness English
- brownnose English
- brownout English
- brownstone English
- browntop English
- brownwort English
- browny English
- embrown English
- mono-brown English
- nonbrown English
- nut-brown English
- overbrown English
- unbrown English
- brunneus Latin
- brūnus Latin
- *bher- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerH- Proto-Indo-European
- *brūnaz Proto-Germanic
- brun Old English
- brūn Old English
- brúnn Old Norse
- brúnn Icelandic
- brown Welsh
- brūn Old High German
- *brūn gmw-pro
- *brūn Old Dutch
- brûn Middle Low German
- brūn Old Saxon
- bregn Romansh
- brin Romansh
- brün Romansh
- broon Scots
- *brūn Frankish
- būrawūn Marshallese
- braun Tok Pisin
- braunpela Tok Pisin
- brün North Frisian
- braon Bislama