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BrewEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Brugha (“descendant of the farmer”), from brughaire (“farmer”), from brugh (“land”) + -aire. * As a Manx surname, Anglicized from MacVriw, from breitheamh (“deemster”); see Brain. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Breu, Breuer.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗brewEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *brewwaną Proto-West Germanic *breuwan Old English brēowan Middle English brewen English brew From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗brewEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.
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