| 1 | Old English | breġdan | to braid; to move quickly, pull, shake, swing,... |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | bregdan | to move back and forth; to brandish, to draw; to... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | bregdaną | to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug , twitch, flinch,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰrēḱ- | — |