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From Medieval Latin brūnus (“brown, brunet”) (whence also Spanish bruno, French brun), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”).

broin (feminine broina)

  1. brown
  2. dark

broin

  1. inflection of bran (“raven”):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural
Mutation of broin
radical lenition nasalization
broin broin
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbroin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Broin

Borrowed from Dutch bruin.

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾoiŋ/, /ˈbɾoin/, [ˈbɾʊ̞iŋ], [ˈbɾɔ̝iŋ]

broin

  1. brown
Colours in Sranan Tongo (kloru) (layout · text)
     redi      geri      blaw      grun      weti
     blaka      broin      alanya      lila      [Term?]
  • Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “broin”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary