brae

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bɹeɪ/|/bɹɪə/|/bɹiː/    美 /bɹeɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sloping bank of a river valley. Northern-England,Scotland
    — Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
  2. Any hillside or slope. Northern-England,Scotland
    — You are directed to the particular part of the brae where the Covenanters stationed themselves, (at the time of my visit it was a field of pasture, on which some cows were quietly feeding,) and the eminence behind, [...]

词形变化

braes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Bellbrae braeface Braefield Braehead braeman Braemeadows Braeside Glenbrae Gowanbrae Heatherbrae Logie Brae Orchard Brae Sunnybrae Urrbrae

词源

From Middle English bro, bra (“bank of a stream; raised edge of a ditch or pit”), from Old Norse brá (“eyebrow; eyelash”) (probably in the sense of the brow of a hill), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō (“eyebrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“eyebrow”).
The English word is cognate with Old English brǣw, brēaw (“eyelid”), Old High German brāwa (Middle High German brā, modern German Braue (“eyebrow”)), Old Saxon brāwa, brāha (“eyebrow; eyelash”); and is a doublet of bree (“(Scotland) brow; forehead; (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) eyebrow; eyelid”) and brow.
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