braak
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See also: bråk
Afrikaans
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
braak (present braak, present participle brakende, past participle gebraak)
- To vomit.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch brâke (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *brāku. Cognate with German Brache (whence also the adjective brach), Old English brǣc (“plowed land”). Related with breken (“to break”), so called because the field is plowed (“broken”) and then left in this state.
Adjective
braak (not comparable)
Declension
Declension of braak | ||||
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uninflected | braak | |||
inflected | brake | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | braak | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | brake | ||
n. sing. | braak | |||
plural | brake | |||
definite | brake | |||
partitive | braaks |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch brake, brēken.
Noun
braak f (uncountable)
- The act of breaking or breaking in.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
braak
- inflection of braken:
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “braak1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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