brestr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brestuz (“fracture, impairment”), a u-stem, reanalyzed as an i-stem.

Pronunciation

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈbres.tr̩/

Noun

brestr m

1. chink, crack
2. want, loss, lack

Declension

  Declension of brestr (strong i-stem, s-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	brestr	brestrinn	brestir	brestirnir
accusative	brest	brestinn	bresti	brestina
dative	brest	brestinum	brestum	brestunum
genitive	brests	brestsins	bresta	brestanna

Related terms

• bresta

Descendants

• Icelandic: brestur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brest
• Danish: brist c
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brist m
• → Middle English: brest, berst, barst

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “brestr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive