bringe

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See also: brînge

English

Verb

bringe (third-person singular simple present bringes or bringeth, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle broughte)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bring.

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German bringen. Compare German bringen, Dutch brengen, English bring, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan).

Pronunciation

Verb

bringe (third-person singular simple present bringt, past participle praacht, auxiliary haa)

  1. to bring

Derived terms

References

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brenɡə/, [ˈb̥ʁæŋə], [ˈb̥ʁæŋŋ̩]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bringa, from Proto-Germanic *bringô, which is related to *brinkaz (edge, hill).[1] Cognate with Swedish bringa, Old English bringádl (epilepsy).

Noun

bringe c (singular definite bringen, plural indefinite bringer)

  1. chest (of a larger animal, especially horses)
Declension
References
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “167”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 167

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German bringen, brengen, from Old Saxon brengian.

Cognate with English bring, German bringen, Dutch brengen, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan). Norwegian bringe and Swedish bringa are also borrowed from Low German.

Verb

bringe (past tense bragte, past participle bragt)

  1. to bring
  2. to publish (in the mass media)
    Avisen bragte en historie om nogle vindruer.
    The newspaper published a story about some grapes.
Conjugation
Derived terms
References

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

bringe

  1. inflection of bringen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Middle English

Verb

bringe

  1. Alternative form of bryngen

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bringa.

Noun

bringe f or m (definite singular bringa or bringen, indefinite plural bringer, definite plural bringene)

  1. chest

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German bringen.

Verb

bringe (imperative bring, present tense bringer, passive bringes, simple past brakte or bragte, past participle brakt or bragt, present participle bringende)

  1. to bring, fetch
  2. to take, carry
  3. to deliver
Usage notes

The verb forms bragte and bragt are only used in Riksmål, and are presumably taken from Danish.

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse bringa.

Noun

bringe f (definite singular bringa, indefinite plural bringer, definite plural bringene)

  1. chest

References

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbrin.ɡe/, [ˈbriŋ.ɡe]

Verb

bringe

  1. inflection of bringan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German bringen, from Old High German bringan.

Compare German bringen, Dutch brengen, English bring.

Verb

bringe

  1. to bring

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian brenga, bringa.

Pronunciation

Verb

bringe

  1. to bring

Inflection

Further reading

  • bringe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011