Where does “brūst” come from?

brūst (Vilamovian) comes from Middle High German brust, from Old High German brūst, from Proto-West Germanic brust, from Proto-Germanic brusts, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrews- — to break.

brūst (Vilamovian): breast; the fleshy organs on the chest of a sexually mature human female

Definitions

  1. breast; the fleshy organs on the chest of a sexually mature human female

Ancestry of “brūst”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanbrust—
2Old High Germanbrūstbreast, chest
3Proto-West Germanicbrustbreast, chest
4Proto-Germanicbrustsbreast, chest
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrews-to break
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