brekke
Norwegian
verb
Definitions
- to break
- to fracture
- to snap (reflexive)
- to gag (experience a vomiting reflex)
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German breken derived from Old Saxon brekan derived from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (break) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (break, crack, split).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰreg-
Gloss
break, crack, split
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- break English
- diffraction English
- refract English
- refraction English
- refringence English
- confringere Latin
- diffractus Latin
- fractio Latin
- fractura Latin
- fractūra Latin
- fragilis Latin
- fragmentum Latin
- frangere Latin
- frango Latin
- frāctura Latin
- frāctus Latin
- frāctūra Latin
- infractio Latin
- infringere Latin
- refrenare Latin
- brechen German
- erbrechen German
- breken Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰreHg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrāg- Proto-Indo-European
- brekkjern Norwegian Bokmål
- jern Norwegian Bokmål
- *brak- Proto-Germanic
- *brekaną Proto-Germanic
- *brekō Proto-Germanic
- *brukanaz Proto-Germanic
- *brukka- Proto-Germanic
- *brukkô Proto-Germanic
- brai Middle English
- brække Danish
- broiier Old French
- răsfrânge Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- brehhan Old High German
- 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- *brekan gmw-pro
- brejo Old Portuguese
- breken Middle Low German
- brēken Middle Low German
- afbrekan Old Saxon
- bibrekan Old Saxon
- brekan Old Saxon
- tebrekan Old Saxon
- *brekan Frankish
- breka Old Frisian
- *breg(i)štā Proto-Albanian