breken

From Middle Dutch brēken, from Old Dutch *brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreːkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: bre‧ken
• Rhymes: -eːkən

breken

1. (ergative) to break

• Afrikaans: breek
• Berbice Creole Dutch: breke
• Negerhollands: breek

• berken

• bräken
• briäken
• braeken, breaken, brekken (New Saxon Spelling)

From Middle Low German brēken, from Old Saxon brekan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-. Cognate to Plautdietsch bräken, Dutch breken, German brechen, West Frisian brekke, English break, Danish brække.

• IPA^(key): [breːkⁿŋ̩]

breken (third-person singular simple present brickt, past tense brook, past participle braken, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to break

From Old Dutch *brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

brēken

1. to break, to break into pieces
2. to break, to be broken
3. to destroy
4. to break in
5. to end, to diminish, to weaken
6. to break, to overcome resistance, to subdue

• gebrēken
• misbrēken
• ontbrēken
• tebrēken
• verbrēken

• Dutch: breken
• Limburgish: braeke

• “breken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “breken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• breoken, braken

From Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną. Doublet of brayen (“to break up”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛːkən/

breken

1. to break

• breker

• English: break
• Scots: breke, brick, brak
• Yola: brough, brocke, brek

• “brēken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.