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Where does “brumeusement” come from?

brumeusement (French) comes from French brumeux, from French brume, from Old French brume, from Latin bruma, from Old Occitan bruma, from Latin brūma, from Latin brevima, from Latin brevis — short.

brumeusement (French): mistily, hazily

Definitions

  1. mistily, hazily

Ancestry of “brumeusement”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbrumeuxmisty, hazy, foggy
2Frenchbrumemist, haze, fog
3Old Frenchbrume—
4Latinbrumathe winter solstice; winter, winter cold
5Old Occitanbruma—
6Latinbrūma—
7Latinbrevimathe shortest
8Latinbrevisshort, small, little, narrow; brief, short;...
9Proto-Italic*breɣʷis—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanmréǵʰusshort; brief
11Proto-Indo-Europeanmreǵʰ-short
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