brant

See also: Brant, and bränt

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɹænt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Noun

brant (plural brants or brant)

(Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:
  I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

Derived terms

Translations

wild geese of the genus Branta

Bulgarian: черна гъска f (černa gǎska)
Czech: berneška (cs) f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: zwarte gans f, zeegans f
Finnish: kirjohanhi
French: bernarche f
German: Meergans f
Greenlandic: nerlernaq
Icelandic: margæs (is) f (Branta bernicla)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
Polish: bernikla (pl) f
Portuguese: barnacle m, bernaca (pt) f
Russian: каза́рка (ru) f (kazárka)
Spanish: barnacla f
Swedish: brantagås c
Ukrainian: каза́рка (uk) f (kazárka)

References

^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 70, 77.
^ Kear, Janet (2005): Ducks, Geese and Swans: General chapters, species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina), p. 306
^ Sandrock & Prior (2014): The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest, p. 25

Etymology 2

From Middle English brant, from Old English brant (“high, steep”), from Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“steep, towering”). Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

Alternative forms

brent

Adjective

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)

(dialectal) steep, precipitous.
- 1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven:
  Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
(Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
- 1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson:
  Your bonnie brow was brent.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *brand

Noun

brant m

fire
burning piece of wood, brand
firewood, fuel
burn (mark on the skin or something else)

Descendants

Dutch: brand
- Afrikaans: brand
Limburgish: brandj

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

brente (transitive)

Verb

brant

intransitive simple past of brenne

Old English

Alternative forms

bront

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“high, steep, towering”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”), related to Old Norse brant (“precipice”), Old Norse bretta (“to lift up, raise”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate also with Old Norse brattr (“steep, towering, harsh, difficult”), Old Swedish branter, Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brɑnt/

Adjective

brant

tall, high, steep

Declension

Declension of brant — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	brant	brant	brant
Accusative	brantne	brante	brant
Genitive	brantes	brantre	brantes
Dative	brantum	brantre	brantum
Instrumental	brante	brantre	brante
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	brante	branta, brante	brant
Accusative	brante	branta, brante	brant
Genitive	brantra	brantra	brantra
Dative	brantum	brantum	brantum
Instrumental	brantum	brantum	brantum

Declension of brant — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	branta	brante	brante
Accusative	brantan	brantan	brante
Genitive	brantan	brantan	brantan
Dative	brantan	brantan	brantan
Instrumental	brantan	brantan	brantan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	brantan	brantan	brantan
Accusative	brantan	brantan	brantan
Genitive	brantra, brantena	brantra, brantena	brantra, brantena
Dative	brantum	brantum	brantum
Instrumental	brantum	brantum	brantum

Derived terms

brenting

Descendants

Middle English: brant, brent
- English: brant
- Scots: brent

References

Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.
“brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Old French

Noun

brant oblique singular, m (oblique plural branz or brantz, nominative singular branz or brantz, nominative plural brant)

Alternative form of branc

Old Norse

Alternative forms

*bratt — Western dialect

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), as well as barmr (“rim, edge”).

Noun

brant n

(Eastern dialect) steepness
(Eastern dialect) precipice

References

Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.
“brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse brantr, (West Norse brattr), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Adjective

brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)

steep (sharply inclined)
Cykla uppför en brant backe
Ride up a steep slope

Declension

Inflection of brant
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	brant	brantare	brantast
Neuter singular	brant	brantare	brantast
Plural	branta	brantare	brantast
Masculine plural³	brante	brantare	brantast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	brante	brantare	brantaste
All	branta	brantare	brantaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms

tvärbrant (“sheer, precipitous”)

Related terms

branthet

Noun

brant c

a steeply sloping side of a landform, a precipice

Declension

Declension of brant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	brant	brants
singular	definite	branten	brantens
plural	indefinite	branter	branters
plural	definite	branterna	branternas

Derived terms

stå på ruinens brant

References

brant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
brant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
brant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German brant, from Old High German brant, from Proto-West Germanic *brand.

Noun

brant m

[1] Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 70, 77.

[2] Kear, Janet (2005): Ducks, Geese and Swans: General chapters, species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina), p. 306

[3] Sandrock & Prior (2014): The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest, p. 25

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brant

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Etymology 2

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Middle Dutch

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Old English

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Old French

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Old Norse

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Swedish

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Adjective

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Vilamovian

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