| 1 | English | brusque | Rudely abrupt, unfriendly |
| 2 | French | brusque | abrupt; curt; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Italian | brusco | abrupt, sudden, brusque; first-person singular... |
| 4 | Italian | bruscare | to clean with a scrubbing brush; to toast |
| 5 | Romanian | -re | -ing, -ation |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |