Etymology

brandreth

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Today it means: A tripod or stand for a cask, a haystack, etc. Full definition →

Middle English brandreth ← Old English brandrād ← Proto-West Germanic [Term?]
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*brandaraidō
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from[Term?]
  3. Old English · inherited frombrandrād
  4. Middle English · inherited frombrandreth
  5. English todaybrandreth

From Middle English brandreth, from Old English brandrād, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *brandaraidō.

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