brynja

From Old Norse brynja, from Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ. Cognate with Icelandic brynja, Swedish brynja, Norwegian brynje, Danish brynje.

brynja f (genitive singular brynju, plural brynjur)

1. coat of mail (or plate)

• ringabrynja
• spangabrynja

From Old Norse brynja, from Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ. Cognate with Faroese brynja, Swedish brynja, Norwegian brynje, Danish brynje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɪnja/
• Rhymes: -ɪnja

brynja f (genitive singular brynju, nominative plural brynjur)

1. coat of mail (or plate)

• hringabrynja

brynja f (definite singular brynja, indefinite plural brynjer or brynjor, definite plural brynjene or brynjone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of brynje
2. definite singular of brynje

From Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ.

brynja f

1. coat of mail (or plate); byrnie

• Icelandic: brynja
• Faroese: brynja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brynja, brynju, brynje
• Old Swedish: brynia, brønia
  • Swedish: brynja
• Danish: brynje
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brynje
• → Middle English: brinie
  • English: byrnie, brinie
  • Scots: byrnie

• “brynja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Swedish brynia, brønia, from Old Norse brynja, from Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ. Cognate with Icelandic brynja, Faroese brynja, Norwegian brynje, Danish brynje.

brynja c

1. coat of mail (or plate)
2. Short for nätbrynja.

• nätbrynja
• ringbrynja (“coat of chain mail”)

• brynja in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• brynja in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)