Etymology

Brandwein

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Today it means: A surname from German. Full definition →

German Brandwein
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  1. German · borrowed fromBrandwein
  2. English todayBrandwein

Borrowed from German Brandwein, a Jewish Ashkenazi metonymic occupational surname for a distiller, from Branntwein (“spirit, booze”).

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