bryggja

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɪt͡ʃːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪt͡ʃːa

From Old Norse brugga, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną.

bryggja (third person singular past indicative bryggjaði, third person plural past indicative bryggjað, supine bryggjað)

1. to brew

From Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ.

bryggja f (genitive singular bryggju, plural bryggjur)

1. pier

• gøta
• breyt
• vegur
• brúgv
• sjógvur

From Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɪcːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪcːa

bryggja f (genitive singular bryggju, nominative plural bryggjur)

1. pier

Possibly from an unattested Old Norse *bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną (“to brew”), a class 2 strong verb. It would have been the verb of the actually attested Old Norse past participle brugginn. Compare with Old Swedish bryggia.

bryggja

1. to brew

• Norwegian Nynorsk: bryggja

• “brygge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bryggje” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Middle Norwegian bryggja (“to brew”), from the unattested infinitive Old Norse *bryggja of the actually attested past participle brugginn. From earlier Proto-Germanic *brewwaną (“to brew”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European [Term?] root *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil, brew”).

• brygga, brygge, bryggje

bryggja (present tense bryggjer or bryggjar, past tense brygde or bryggja, passive infinitive bryggjast, present participle bryggjande, imperative brygg)

1. to brew

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bryggja

1. (pre-2012 or dialectal) alternative form of bryggje
2. definite singular of bryggje

• “bryggja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ, whence also English bridge.

bryggja f (genitive bryggju)

1. (nautical) pier, gangway

• brú

• Icelandic: bryggja
• Faroese: bryggja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brygge, bryggje; brygga, bryggja
• Norwegian Bokmål: brygge
• Old Swedish: bryggia, ᛒᚱᛦᚵᚵᛁᛆ
  • Swedish: brygga
• Danish: brygge
• → Middle English: brig, brigg, bryg, bregg
  • Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
    • → English: brig, brigg

• bryggja in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.