Noun: bru
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bru |
| Plural f | brus |
Sample Sentences
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Les adieux de la belle-mère et de la bru furent secs. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]
Nouns inflected like bru
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French bru, from Old French bru, brui, bruz, from Late Latin bruta, brutis, from Old High German brūt (“daughter-in-law, bride”) or Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “daughter-in-law”); both from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”). Akin to Old English brȳd (“bride”), English bride. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃', English Nouns '
bride'.
Verbs referencing "bru"
English Nouns
bride.
Translations