Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Crafty, deceitful.
To make a sudden movement with, to jerk. · To start into motion. · To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids. · To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. · A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. · A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together. · A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”). Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbraidenenm
- Inherited-form mentionbreġdanang
- Inherited-form mention*bregdangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*bregdanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰrēḱ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionbradesco
- Cognate mentionbraidsco
- Cognate mentionbraidjestq
- Cognate mentionbreidzjefy
- Cognate mentionbreidennds
- Cognate mentionbreidende
- Cognate mentionbrettenbar
- Cognate mentionbregðais
- Cognate mentionbregðafo
- Cognate mentionbregdafo
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