breet
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- bräät (most dialects of Moselle Franconian)
- breit (Kölsch)
Etymology
From Old High German breid, northern variant of breit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʀeːt/
Adjective
breet (masculine breede, feminine and plural breet or breede, comparative breeder, superlative et breetste)
East Central German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German breit, from Old High German breit, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz. Compare Luxembourgish breet.
Adjective
breet
- (Erzgebirgisch) broad, wide
- S loch viel Schnee, net huch aber breet.
- There was a lot of snow, not high but wide.
Further reading
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Middle High German breit, from Old High German breid, northern variant of breit, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʀeːt/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eːt
- Homophone: Breet
Adjective
breet (masculine breeden, neuter breet, comparative méi breet, superlative am breetsten)
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /breːt/
Adjective
brêet (comparative brêder)
Inflection
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| nominative | indefinite | brêet | brêde | brêet | brêde |
| definite | brêde | brêde | |||
| accusative | indefinite | brêden | brêde | brêet | brêde |
| definite | brêde | ||||
| genitive | indefinite | brêets | brêder | brêets | brêder |
| definite | brêets, brêden | brêets, brêden | |||
| dative | brêden | brêder | brêden | brêden | |
Alternative forms
- breit (Limburgish)
Descendants
Further reading
- “breet”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “breet”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German breit, from Old High German breit, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.
Compare German breit, Dutch breed, English broad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /breːt/
Adjective
breet
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From Middle Low German *brêd, from Old Saxon brēd.