Etymology

bramble

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Today it means: Any of many closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus including the blackberry and likely not including the raspberry proper. Full definition →

Middle English brembel ← Old English bræmbel ← Proto-West Germanic *brāmil
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  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*brāmil
  2. Old English · inherited frombræmbel
  3. Middle English · inherited frombrembel
  4. English todaybramble

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).

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