Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The sloping bank of a river valley. · Any hillside or slope.
From Middle English bro, bra (“bank of a stream; raised edge of a ditch or pit”), from Old Norse brá (“eyebrow; eyelash”) (probably in the sense of the brow of a hill), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō (“eyebrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“eyebrow”). The English word is cognate with Old English brǣw, brēaw (“eyelid”), Old High German brāwa (Middle High German brā, modern German Braue (“eyebrow”)), Old Saxon brāwa, brāha (“eyebrow; eyelash”); and is a doublet of bree (“(Scotland) brow; forehead; (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) eyebrow; eyelid”) and brow.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbroenm
- Derivation mentionbránon · eyebrow; eyelash
- Derivation mention*brēwōgem-pro · eyebrow
- Derivation mention*h₃bʰrúHsine-pro · eyebrow
- Cognate mentionbrǣwang
- Cognate mentionbrāwagoh
- Cognate mentionbrāgmh
- Cognate mentionBrauede · eyebrow
- Cognate mentionbrāwaosx
- Doublet mentionbreeen · (Scotland) brow; forehead; (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) eyebrow; eyelid
- Doublet mentionbrowen
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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