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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *breustą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_breustą</idno>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_cel-x-proto_brusu" xml:lang="cel-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*brusū</orth>
          <def>belly, abdomen; breast</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_bruxo" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*břȗxo</orth>
          <def>belly</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_breusta" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/breustą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>breustą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈbreu̯s.tɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᚱᛖᚢᛊᛏᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>breast, chest</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From pre-Germanic *bʰrews-t-o-m, a t-extension of the full-grade root of *bʰrews- (‘breast; to swell’, unrelated to the similar root meaning ‘to break, cf. *brausijaną (‘to break, crush’)). Related to *brusts (‘breast, chest’). Cognate with Proto-Celtic <mentioned xml:lang="cel-x-proto" target="#cog_cel-x-proto_brusu"><ref target="#cog_cel-x-proto_brusu">*brusū</ref></mentioned> (‘belly, abdomen; breast’) and Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_bruxo"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_bruxo">*břȗxo</ref></mentioned> (‘belly’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>breustą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>breustō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>breustą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>breustō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>breustas, briustis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>breustǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>breustai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>breustamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>breustō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>breustamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>breustą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>breustō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*breust</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>briāst, brast</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>breost, briost, brust</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*breust</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>brēost</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>brest, breste, breost, breist, brost, brust, brist, breast, bryest</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>brest, breast</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>brest, breist, breest</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brjóst</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>bryst</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>bróst</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>brjóst</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brjóst</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>bryst</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brjóst</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>bryst</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>bröst</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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