brez

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From *bren +‎ -ëz, possibly from Proto-Albanian *breuna, from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (compare Old English prēon (“pin, brooch needle”), Lithuanian briaunà (“edge”)).[1][2] Lent Romanian brâu ~ dialectal brân.[1]

Noun[edit]

brez m (plural breza, definite brezi, definite plural brezat)

  1. belt, girdle, waistband
  2. sash
  3. waistline, midriff
  4. (by extension) climatic zone
  5. (by extension) generation, bloodline
    brezi i ri
    the younger generation

Declension[edit]

Declension of brez
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative brez breza brezi brezat
accusative brezin
dative brezi brezave brezit brezavet
ablative brezash

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “brez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 36.
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Preposition[edit]

brez (Cyrillic spelling брез) (+ genitive case)

  1. (Croatia, Kajkavian, Chakavian) without

Slovene[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeǵʰs.

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

brez

  1. (with genitive) without

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

brez

  1. genitive dual/plural of breza

Further reading[edit]

  • “brez”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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