bran

See also: Bran and brân

English

Etymology

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”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

bran (countable and uncountable, plural brans)

  1. 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.
  2. The European carrion crow.

Translations

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

Noun

bran m (plural brini)

  1. crow, raven

Inflection

See also

  • frav

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bran, from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”).

Compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɹæːn]

Noun

bran m (plural brini or briny)

  1. crow

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bran, from Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos, from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Noun

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. (literary) raven
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

bran m (genitive singular brain, nominative plural brain)

  1. bream (Abramis brama)
Synonyms

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bran bhran mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Old French

Noun

bran m (oblique plural brans, nominative singular brans, nominative plural bran)

  1. Alternative form of branc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚐ (brana), from Proto-Celtic *branos (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *werneh₂- (“crow”) (compare Tocharian B wrauña, Lithuanian várna).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bran/

Noun

bran m (genitive brain or broin, nominative plural brain or broin)

  1. raven

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bran bran
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “1 bran” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bornь. Cognate with Polish broń.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbráːn/
  • Tonal orthography: brȃn

Noun

brán f (genitive braní, nominative plural braní)

  1. defense

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English bran.

Noun

bran m (plural {{{2}}})

  1. bran (broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain), husks

Derived terms

  • bran gwenith (“wheat-bran”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bran fran mran unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “bran”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014
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