brez

Albanian

Etymology

From *bren + suffix -ëz, from Proto-Albanian *breuna, from Proto-Indo-European *breun- (compare Old English prēon ‘pin, brooch needle’, Lithuanian briaunà ‘edge’).^[1]^[2] Lent Romanian brâu ~ dialectal brân.^[1]

Noun

brez m (indefinite plural breza, definite singular brezi)

Related terms

mbreh

References

1 2 Orel, Vladimir (1998), “brez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 36.
↑ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(standard): bèz
(Croatia) prez, preza

Preposition

brez (Cyrillic spelling брез) (+ genitive case)

(Croatia) without
- 1501, Marko Marolić, Judita:
  O koliko blude ki kažu došasna,
  
  brez razbora sude kakono iza sna;
- 1556, Petar Hektorović, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje:
  Tuj se pokripismo na volju brez priše
  
  I pismo i jismo koliko kî htiše
- 1584, Brne Karnarutić, Vazetje Sigeta grada:
  Vazda vaše vire ljubav me poteza
  
  Tere me brez mire jakom uzom veza,
- 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:
  a kći, moja krvca, gola je brez ruha,
  
  uboga brez drvca i gladna brez kruha!"
- 1871, August Šenoa, Zlatarevo zlato:
  Lijepa naša gospodarica ne govori posve brez razloga.

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰ-

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brɛs/, /brɛz/
Tonal orthography: brez

Preposition

brez

(with genitive) without

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