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Where does “brawa” come from?

brawa (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic brēwō, from Proto-Indo-European h₃bʰrúHs — eyebrow.

brawa (Old Saxon): an eyelash; an eyebrow

Definitions

  1. an eyelash; an eyebrow

Ancestry of “brawa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicbrēwōeyebrow
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃bʰrúHseyebrow
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