broder

From Middle Cornish broder, bruder, from Old Cornish broder, from Proto-Brythonic *brọdr, from Proto-Celtic *brātīr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognate with Breton breur, Irish bráthair, Manx braar, Scottish Gaelic bràthair, and Welsh brawd.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔdɛr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔdɐr]

broder m (plural breder)

1. brother

From Old Danish brothær, from Old Norse bróðir (“brother”), from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʁoːðɐ]

broder c (singular definite broderen, plural indefinite brødre)

1. (now formal) brother (male sibling)

• bror

• fader
• moder
• søster

Inherited from Old French brosder, from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽 (*bruzdōn).

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.de/

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broder

1. to embroider

• broderie
• brodeur
• brodeuse

• “broder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• border, rebord

broder

1. alternative form of brother
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book Two Capitulum ix

     Anone after cam the knyght with the two swerdes and balan his broder / and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym / & soo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day

     Anon after came the knight with the two swords and Balan his brother / and brought with them King Ryons of North Wales and there delivered him to the porters and charged them with him / and so the two of them returned again in the dawning of the day.

• broudaïr (Guernsey)

From Old French brosder, from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽 (*bruzdōn).

broder (gerund brod'die)

1. (Jersey) to embroider

• brod'die (“embroidery”)

From Old Norse bróðir (“brother”), from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• bror

broder m (definite singular broderen, indefinite plural brødre, definite plural brødrene)

1. a brother

• brodermord

broder

1. imperative of brodere

• “broder” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bror

From Old Norse bróðir (“brother”), from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

broder m (definite singular broderen, indefinite plural brødrar, definite plural brødrane)

1. a brother

• brodermord n

• “broder” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• brosder, brouder

From Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽 (*bruzdōn).

broder

1. to embroider

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• embrosder

• Middle French: broder
  • French: broder
    • → Danish: brodere
• Norman: broder (Jersey), broudaïr (Guernésiais)
• Picard: border
• →? Middle English: broiden, brouden (partially, merged with Old English brogden)
• →⇒ Irish: bródáil
  • ⇒ Irish: bróidnigh

broder

1. alternative form of brither

• “broder, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 204, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

• bror

From Old Swedish brōþir, from Old Norse bróðir, from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /²bruːdɛr/, [ˈbruːˌdər]

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• Rhymes: -uːdɛr

broder c

1. (somewhat solemn) a brother (this is the original form more commonly contracted to bror)

   Synonyms: bror, (colloquial) brorsa

   • 1917, “Omkring tiggarn [tiggaren] från Luossa [Around the beggar from Luossa]”, in Dan Andersson (lyrics), Gunde Johansson (music), Våra vackraste visor Vol. 2 [Our most beautiful songs Vol. 2]‎^[1], performed by Hootenanny Singers:

     Följ mig, broder, bortom bergen med de stilla, svala floder, där allt havet somnar långsamt inom bergomkransad bädd. Någonstädes bortom himlen är mitt hem, har jag min moder, mitt i guldomstänkta dimmor i en rosenmantel klädd.

     Follow me, brother, beyond the mountains with the calm, cool rivers, where all the sea slowly goes to sleep within a mountain-enwreathed bed. Somewhere beyond the sky is my home, I have my mother, midst mists sprinkled about with gold [gold-about/around-sprinkled/splashed], in a rose mantle clad.

2. a brother, a friar, a monk, a male member of a religious community

   Troligen har det bott 15 till 25 bröder samtidigt i klostret.

   The monastery probably housed 15 to 25 brethren.

   broder Daniel

   brother Daniel [also the name of a Swedish alternative rock band]

3. (slang) brother (usually friendly or familiar term of address for a male, as an (emphatic) form of bror)

   Synonym: bror

   Vi har med oss vår fakking broder, Amir!

   We brought our fucking brother, Amir!

• syskon (“sibling”)
• syster (“sister”)

• “broder”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “broder”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “broder”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)