Where does “brayen” come from?

brayen (Middle English) comes from Old French braire, from Vulgar Latin bragio, from Gaulish bragu, from Welsh -u, from Middle Welsh -u, from Proto-Brythonic -oβ̃ — Forms verbal nouns, originally from thematic...

brayen (Middle English): To cry out in alarm or sorrow

Definitions

  1. To cry out in alarm or sorrow

Ancestry of “brayen”, step by step

brayen traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French braire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbraireto bray; to cry out; to shout out
2Vulgar LatinbragioI bray, make animal noises; I cry, weep
3Gaulishbragu
4Welsh-uimpression, imprint
5Middle Welsh-u
6Proto-Brythonic-oβ̃Forms verbal nouns, originally from thematic...

via Old French broiier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbroiierto crush; to break into small pieces
2Frankishbrekanto break
3Proto-Germanicbrekanąto break
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer

via Anglo-Norman breier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanbreier

Words derived from “brayen

Every word from Proto-Brythonic -oβ̃Every word from Welsh -uEvery word from Gaulish bragu