brant

• IPA^(key): /bɹænt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt

New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).[1][2][3]

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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?

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

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)).

• brent

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.

From Old Dutch *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.

brant m

1. fire
2. burning piece of wood, brand
3. firewood, fuel
4. burn (mark on the skin or something else)

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• brand

• branden

• Dutch: brand
• Limburgish: brandj

• “brant (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “brant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• brente (transitive)

brant

1. intransitive simple past of brenne

• bront

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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /brɑnt/

brant

1. tall, high, steep

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• brenting

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  • Scots: brent

• 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.

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1. Alternative form of branc

• *bratt — Western dialect

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), as well as barmr (“rim, edge”).

brant n

1. (Eastern dialect) steepness
2. (Eastern dialect) precipice

• 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.

From Old Norse brantr, (West Norse brattr), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), bront (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), brent, Scots brent).

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brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)

1. steep (sharply inclined)

   Cykla uppför en brant backe

   Ride up a steep slope

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• branthet

• bråd

brant c

1. a steeply sloping side of a landform, a precipice

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• stå på ruinens brant

• brant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• brant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• brant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

brant m

1. fire, blaze
2. gangrene
3. grain smut