Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. · The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo preserve food in a salt solution. · To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”). Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbrineenm
- Inherited-form mentionbrīneang
- Inherited-form mention*brīnāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*brīnǭgem-pro · salt water, brine
- Cognate mentionbrimesco
- Cognate mentionbreinfy
- Cognate mentionbrijnnl · brine
- Cognate mentionbrijnevls
- Derivation mention*bʰreyH-ine-pro · to cut, maim
- Cognate mentionro·briasga
- Cognate mentionfriārela
- Cognate mentionbrítisl
- Cognate mentionbrejsq
- Cognate mentionबृणातिsa
- Derivation mention*mriHnósine-pro
- Cognate mentionmarīnusla
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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