breme

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*brōmiz“famous”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*brōmi
3. Old English · inherited frombrēme“famous, glorious, noble”
4. Middle English · inherited frombrem
5. English todaybreme

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

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