brindle · noun, adjective, verb1
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Brindle · proper noun2
- German · derived fromBrindl
- Old English · derived fromburna“stream, brook”
- English todayBrindle
From Old English burna (“stream, brook”) + hyll (“hill”). The surname could either derive from the village in England or be an Americanized spelling of South German Brindl and Bründl.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishburna all →
bourneBurnhamBruntonBrundishbrunneWinkburn
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.