Where does “browsi” come from?

browsi (Cornish) comes from Cornish brows, from Cornish brewi, from Cornish i, from English eyes, from Proto-Indo-European éy, from Proto-Indo-European h₁e-.

browsi (Cornish): to crumble

Definitions

  1. to crumble

Ancestry of “browsi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishbrowscrumbled material; mash, groundbait
2Cornishbrewito bruise
3Cornishithey
4Englisheyesplural of eye; Third-person singular simple...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanéythe; demonstrative pronoun; this one, he
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁e-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁e- →