braiw

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Low German[edit]

Noun[edit]

braiw m (plural braiws)

  1. (Brazilian Pomerian) letter
    Ik srijw dij deisa braiw taum dij sägen duu büst air gaur määka.
    I am writing this letter to say that you are a nice girl.
    Ik wait, dat feel lüür sich up Pomerisch braiws srijwa, tüschen hijr un Rondônia.
    I know that a lot of people write letters to each other in Pomeranian, between here and Rondônia.

Further reading[edit]

  • Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 83 & 217