breest
Scots
[brist], [briʃt]
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) breast
- perpendicular face cut in a moss
- step or layer in a manure heap
- the desk board of a pew
- the front or projecting part of anything
- the cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English brest inherited from Old English brēost (chest) inherited from *breust 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
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Cognates and derived terms
- breast English
- bruscum Latin
- *bʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrews- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrus-tós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruto- Proto-Indo-European
- *breuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *breustą Proto-Germanic
- *briuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *brustiz Proto-Germanic
- *brusts Proto-Germanic
- angbreost Old English
- breost Old English
- breostcearu Old English
- brēost Old English
- brȳsan Old English
- abrest Middle English
- brest Middle English
- bruisen Middle English
- brjóst Old Norse
- *breust gmw-pro
- *bruseti Proto-Celtic
- abreest Scots
- bane Scots
- breestbane Scots
- briast Old Frisian
- *brauša Proto-Albanian