Etymology

byrnie

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Today it means: A short chain mail shirt, covering from the upper arms to the upper thighs. Full definition →

Middle English brinie ← Old Norse brynja
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombrynja
  2. Middle English · inherited frombrinie
  3. English todaybyrnie

From Middle English brinie, burne (whence also, without metathesis, obsolete English brinie), from Old Norse brynja. Cognates include Old English byrne, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌾𐍉 (brunjō) (whence Old Church Slavonic брънѩ (brŭnję)), German Brünne, French broigne.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbrinie all →

brinie

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.