brym
See also: Brym
Middle English
Etymology 1
Likely a blend of breme (“powerful”) + grym (“fierce”). Compare brymston.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brim/
Adjective
brym
Descendants
References
- “brim, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “brim, brym, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, 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.
Adverb
brym
- (rare) fiercely, harshly, powerfully
Descendants
- English: brim (obsolete)
References
- “brim, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English brim, from Proto-West Germanic *brim, from Proto-Germanic *brimą.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brim/
Noun
brym (chiefly Northern and poetic)
Descendants
- English: brim (obsolete)
References
- “brim, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “(brim,) brym, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, 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.
Etymology 3
Noun
brym
- alternative form of brymme