Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To break in pieces; divide. · To bruise; indent. · To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain). · To fade away; alter.
From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“to make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbryttenenm
- Inherited-form mentionbrittianang
- Inherited-form mention*brutjanągem-pro · to break, divide
- Derivation mention*breutanągem-pro · to destroy, crush, break
- Derivation mention*bʰrewd-ine-pro · to break
- Cognate mentionbrytjais · to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter
- Cognate mentionbrytasv · to break, fracture, cut off
- Cognate mentionbrydeda · to break
- Cognate mentionbrydhsq · to make crumbly, friable, soft
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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