Word Origin Summary

*breɣʷis is attested in Proto-Italic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• breve

  Spanish · borrowed from

• abbreviere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• breib

  Irish · borrowed from

• abbreviering

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• brêve

  Ligurian · derived from

• brief

  Middle French · inherited from

• brief

  Old French · derived from

• brevio

  Italian · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root