Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo clean (metal) using a branner.
From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbranenm
- Derivation mentionbrenfro
- Derivation mentionbrennoscel-gau · rotten
- Derivation mention*bragnoscel-pro · rotten, foul
- Cognate mentionbraency · stench
- Cognate mentionbréanga · rancid
- Cognate mentionbrinwa · excrement
- Derivation mention*bʰreHg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionfragrārela · to smell strongly
- Cognate mentionbraknl · hound
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