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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *brunjǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_brunjǭ</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_ine-x-proto_bhrews" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*bʰrews-</orth>
          <def>breast; to swell</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_brunjo" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brunjǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>brunjǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈbrun.jɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᚱᚢᚾᛃᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>breastplate</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>coat of mail, byrnie</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Uncertain. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *brunnyos, from pre-form *bʰrus-n-yo-s (‘breast; hill’), from 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’). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bhrews"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_bhrews">*bʰrews-</ref></mentioned> (‘breast; to swell’), thus cognate with Proto-Germanic *breustą (‘breast, chest’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>brunjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>brunjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>brunjōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>brunjōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>brunjōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>brunjōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>brunjōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>brunjōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>brunjōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>brunjōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>brunjǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>brunjōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*brunnjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>brunnia</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*brunnjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>byrne</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>burne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>byrnie, brinie</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*brunnjā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>brunna, prunna, prunni</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Brünne</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brynja, ᛒᚱᚢᚾᛁᛅ (brunia)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>brynja</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>brynja</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>brynja, brynju, brynje</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brynja, ᛒᚱᚢᚾᛁᛅ (brunia)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>brynje</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>brynje</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brynja, ᛒᚱᚢᚾᛁᛅ (brunia)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>brinie</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>byrnie, brinie</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>byrnie</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brynja, ᛒᚱᚢᚾᛁᛅ (brunia)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>brynia, brønia</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>brynja</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌾𐍉 (brunjō)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Proto-Slavic</lang>
                    <orth>*brъňa</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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