Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brestuz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

A nominal formation from *brestaną (“to burst, break”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbres.tuz/

Noun

*brestuz m^[1]

break; fracture
impairment; handicap

Inflection

Declension of *brestuz (u-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*brestuz	*bristiwiz
vocative	*brestu	*bristiwiz
accusative	*brestų	*brestunz
genitive	*brestauz	*bristiwǫ̂
dative	*bristiwi	*brestumaz
instrumental	*brestū	*brestumiz

Related terms

*brestaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *brestu, *bristi
- Old English: berst, byrst
  - Middle English: brest, berst, barst (possibly from Old Norse)
    - English: burst
    - Scots: birst
- Old Saxon: *brest, *bristi
  - Middle Low German: breste, berste, berst, barst, borst
    - >? German Low German: Brast
- Old Dutch: *brest, *bristi
  - Middle Dutch: berste
    - Dutch: barst
- Old High German: *bristi, bresto; brestī, bresta f
  - Middle High German: breste, brest, brist
    - German: Breste, Brest (archaic)
    - Alemannic German: Breste f
Old Norse: brestr
- Icelandic: brestur
- Faroese: brestur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brest
- Old Swedish: brist, bræst, bryst, bröst
  - Swedish: brist
- Danish: brøst, brist
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: brist

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003), “*ƀrestuz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56

[HGE-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003), “*ƀrestuz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56

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