<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="en" version="4.12.0">
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *brūwō</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_brūwō</idno>
      </publicationStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
      </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_lit_bruve" xml:lang="lit" type="cognate">
          <orth>brùvē</orth>
          <def>brow</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_bhru" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>भ्रू</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>bhrū́</orth>
          </form>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_sga_bru" xml:lang="sga" type="cognate">
          <orth>brū</orth>
          <def>edge, shore</def>
        </item>
      </list>
      <div type="dictionary">
        <entry xml:id="pgmc_bruwo" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brūwō">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>brūwō</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈbruː.wɔː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛒᚱᚢᚹᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ō-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>eyebrow</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>bridge</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From pre-Germanic *bʰruH-ō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰréwH-ō ~ *h₃bʰruHn-és, from *h₃bʰrúHs (‘eyebrow, rim, edge’). Cognate with Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_bhru"><ref target="#cog_san_bhru">भ्रू</ref></mentioned> (bhrū́, ‘eyebrow’), Lithuanian <mentioned xml:lang="lit" target="#cog_lit_bruve"><ref target="#cog_lit_bruve">brùvē</ref></mentioned> (‘brow’), Old Irish <mentioned xml:lang="sga" target="#cog_sga_bru"><ref target="#cog_sga_bru">brū</ref></mentioned> (‘edge, shore’), Russian бровь (brovʹ, ‘eyebrow’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>brūwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>brūwôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>brūwǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>brūwōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>brūwōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>brūwǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>brūwōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>brūwōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>brūwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>brūwōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>brūwō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>brūwôz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
            <list>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>brū, bruu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>browe, brou, brow</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>brow</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Scots</lang>
                      <orth>broo</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>Bruun, Oogenbruun</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brú</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>brúgv</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>brú</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>bru</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brún</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>bryn</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>brún</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>brún</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>brun</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brún</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>bryne</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>brine, brim</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>brún</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>brūn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>bryn</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
        </entry>
      </div>
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>
