Etymology

Brost

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Middle High German brobest
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  1. Middle High German · derived frombrobest“supervisor”
  2. English todayBrost

German occupational surname from Middle High German brobest (“supervisor”); see Probst.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.