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語源 1

From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).

名詞

brant (plural brants or brant)

1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:

     I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

派生語

参照

Further reading

• brant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Branta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

語源 2

From 中期英語 brant, from 古期英語 brant (“high, steep”), from Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“steep, towering”). Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

別の表記

• brent

形容詞

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)

1. (dialectal) steep, precipitous.
   • 1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven:

     Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.

2. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
   • 1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson:

     Your bonnie brow was brent.

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“high, steep, towering”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”), related to Old Norse brant (“precipice”), Old Norse bretta (“to lift up, raise”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate also with Old Norse brattr (“steep, towering, harsh, difficult”), Old Swedish branter, Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant.

発音

• IPA: /brɑnt/

形容詞

brant

1. tall, high, steep

語形変化

派生語

• brenting

派生した語

• Middle English: brant, brent
  • English: brant
  • Scots: brent

参照

• Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Accessed August 5, 2005.
• “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.