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Where does “brics” come from?

brics (Welsh) comes from English bricks, from English brick, from Middle English brik, from Middle Low German bricke, from Proto-West Germanic brekan, from Proto-Germanic brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.

brics (Welsh): bricks; plural of bric

Definitions

  1. bricks; plural of bric

Ancestry of “brics”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishbricksplural of brick; Third-person singular simple...
2EnglishbrickA hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc.,...
3Middle Englishbrik—
4Middle Low Germanbricke—
5Proto-West Germanicbrekanto break
6Proto-Germanicbrekanąto break
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer
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