bringan

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-.

bringan

1. to bring

• Middle Dutch: bringen
  • Dutch: brengen, bringen (dialectal)
    • Afrikaans: bring
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bringgi
    • Negerhollands: breng, bring, briṅ
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: brink
    • →? Sranan Tongo: bringi
  • Limburgish: bringe
  • West Flemish: bringen

• “bringan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• brenġan

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrin.ɡɑn/, [ˈbriŋ.ɡɑn]

bringan

1. to bring
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎^[1]:

     Iċ…, eald ǣfensceōp, eorlum bringe blisse in burgum.

     I…, old evening scop, bring bliss in towns for brave men.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ ēac þætte þrīe wulfas on ānre niht brōhton ānes dēades monnes līchoman binnan þā burg, ⁊ hiene þær siþþan tōbrugdon, oþ þā men onwōcan, ⁊ ūt urnon, ⁊ hīe siþþan aweġ flugon.

     And on one night, three wolves brought the body of a dead man into the city, and then tore it to pieces, until the people awoke and ran out, and they ran away.

• forþbringan
• ġebringan
• inbringan

• Middle English: bryngen
  • English: bring
  • Scots: bring

From Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną, whence also Old Saxon brengian, Old Dutch bringan, Old Frisian brenga, Old English bringan, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan).

bringan

1. to bring

• Middle High German: bringen
  • Alemannic German: bringe
  • Cimbrian: prengen
  • Central Franconian: brenge

    Hunsrik: bringe

    Luxembourgish: bréngen

  • German: bringen
  • Rhine Franconian: brenge, bringe

    Frankfurterisch: [pʀiŋg̥ə], (older) [pʀeŋə]

    Pennsylvania German: bringe

  • Vilamovian: brengia
  • Yiddish: ברענגען (brengen)

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

bringan

1. Alternative form of brengian

bringan

1. definite singular of bringa