broos
Dutch (Brabantic)
/broːs/
adj
Definitions
- (literally) brittle, crisp, physically fragile with a tendency to break into small pieces
- (figuratively) fragile, perishable, vulnerable, weak, e.g. said of short-lived beauty
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch broosc.
Origin
Middle Dutch
broosc
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bruisability English
- bruisable English
- bruise English
- bruiseless English
- bruiselike English
- bruiser English
- bruisest English
- bruisewort English
- bruisy English
- forbruise English
- tobruise English
- broosheid Dutch, Flemish
- bruisen Middle English
- broosc Middle Dutch
- brooscheit Middle Dutch
- breshër Albanian
- *brauša Proto-Albanian