brid

Root
b-r-d
11 terms

• IPA^(key): /briːt/

brid m (instance noun barda)

1. verbal noun of barad: filing

From Old English bridd, of disputed origin.

• bryd, bird, bred, berd, burd, bord

• IPA^(key): /brid/

brid (plural briddes)

1. a young bird, a bird in general
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 13:31-32, page 6v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     An oþer parable iheſus puttide foꝛþ to hem. / ⁊ ſeide / þe kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a coꝛn of ſeneuey · which a man took ⁊ ſewe in his feeld · / which is þe leeſt of alle ſeedis / but whanne it haþ woxen .· it is the mooſt of alle woꝛtis · ⁊ is maad a tre / ſo þe bꝛiddis of þe eir comen ⁊ dwellen in þe bowis þerof.

     Jesus put another parable forwards to them, saying: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field; / it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the largest of all plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

• bridlim

• English: bird
• Scots: bird
• Yola: burdès (plural)

• “brid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

brid

1. Alternative form of bride (“bride”)

brid

1. Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

brȋd m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑д)

1. (graph theory) edge

• “brid”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian bríedis (“elk, moose”), Latvian briêdis (“deer, stag; (originally) elk”), Old Prussian braydis (“elk”).^[1][2]

brid

1. (zoology) deer, stag
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 26, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     jełen [jeleń] — brid

     jełen [jeleń] — deer

• IPA^(key): /briːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophone: bryd (“aim”) (South Wales)

Borrowed from English breed.

brid m (plural bridiau)

1. breed

   Synonyms: hil, âl

brid

1. Soft mutation of prid (“expensive”).

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “brid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies