brista
Swedish
/brɪsːta/
verb-irr
Definitions
- to break
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish brista inherited from Old Norse bresta (break, burst) inherited from Proto-Germanic *brestaną (burst, break, rupture) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (burst, break, crack, separate, split).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰres-
Gloss
burst, break, crack, separate, 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
- aburst English
- afterburst English
- airburst English
- budburst English
- burst English
- burstability English
- burstable English
- burster English
- bursteth English
- burstlet English
- burstwise English
- burstwort English
- bursty English
- circumburst English
- cloudburst English
- colorburst English
- damburst English
- downburst English
- forburst English
- groundburst English
- inburst English
- interburst English
- intraburst English
- macroburst English
- microburst English
- miniburst English
- outburst English
- postburst English
- preburst English
- rockburst English
- starburst English
- sunburst English
- superburst English
- thunderburst English
- toburst English
- unburst English
- upburst English
- Gebresten German
- bersten German
- zerbersten German
- φάρσος Ancient Greek
- *bʰres- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrest- Proto-Indo-European
- briste Norwegian Bokmål
- *brasō Proto-Germanic
- *brestaną Proto-Germanic
- *brustanaz Proto-Germanic
- berstan Old English
- forberstan Old English
- toberstan Old English
- bersten Middle English
- bresta Old Norse
- briste Danish
- bresta Icelandic
- brestan Old High German
- brisid Old Irish
- bresta Faroese
- bresten Middle High German
- *brasa gmw-pro
- brestan Old Dutch
- *brestā Proto-Celtic
- bersten Middle Low German
- brestan Old Saxon
- brista Old Swedish
- brest Westrobothnian
- *bristan Frankish
- *bristijan Frankish
- bersta Old Frisian
- basten Low German