breet

See also: Breet

Central Franconian

Alternative forms
  • bräät (most dialects of Moselle Franconian)
  • breit (Kölsch)

Etymology

From Old High German breid, northern variant of breit.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bʀeːt/

Adjective

breet (masculine breede, feminine and plural breet or breede, comparative breeder, superlative et breetste)

  1. (Ripuarian, Eifel) broad, wide

East Central German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Luxembourgish breet.

Adjective

breet

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) broad, wide
    S loch viel Schnee, net huch aber breet.
    There was a lot of snow, not high but wide.

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German breid, northern variant of breit, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bʀeːt/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːt
  • Homophone: Breet

Adjective

breet (masculine breeden, neuter breet, comparative méi breet, superlative am breetsten)

  1. broad, wide

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /breːt/

Adjective

brêet (comparative brêder)

  1. broad, wide

Inflection
Adjective
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative Indefinite brêet brêde brêet brêde
Definite brêde brêde
Accusative Indefinite brêden brêde brêet brêde
Definite brêde
Genitive brêets brêder brêets brêder
Dative brêden brêder brêden brêden

Alternative forms

Descendants
  • Dutch: breed
    • Afrikaans: breed
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: brete
    • Negerhollands: breed
    • → Caribbean Javanese: bradi (via Sranan Tongo)
    • → West Frisian: breed
  • Limburgish: breid
  • Zealandic: breêd

Further reading
  • “breet”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “breet”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German breit, Dutch breed, English broad.

Adjective

breet

  1. broad, wide

Plautdietsch

Adjective

breet (comparative breeda, superlative aum breetsten)

  1. broad
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