brjóst
Icelandic
/prjoust/
noun
Definitions
- one of a woman's breasts
- breast (chest)
- (chiefly) breast (a person's seat of emotion)
- the front of something
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse brjóst inherited from Proto-Germanic *breustą (chest, breast) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (swell, blow, inflate, break, sprout).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrews-
Gloss
swell, blow, inflate, break, sprout
Concept
Semantic Field
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Cognates and derived terms
- bruscum Latin
- *bʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrews- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrus-tós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruto- Proto-Indo-European
- bryst Norwegian Bokmål
- *breuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *breustą Proto-Germanic
- *briuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *brustiz Proto-Germanic
- *brusts Proto-Germanic
- bryst Norwegian Nynorsk
- brȳsan Old English
- bruisen Middle English
- brjóst Old Norse
- bryst Danish
- bein Icelandic
- brjóstahaldari Icelandic
- brjóstamjólk Icelandic
- brjóstbein Icelandic
- brjóstsviði Icelandic
- brjóstvarta Icelandic
- brjóstvasi Icelandic
- haldari Icelandic
- mjólk Icelandic
- sviði Icelandic
- varta Icelandic
- vasi Icelandic
- bróst Faroese
- *breust gmw-pro
- *bruseti Proto-Celtic
- bryst Old Swedish
- briast Old Frisian
- *brauša Proto-Albanian