Brake Definition

Origin of Brake

• Probably brake bridle, curb from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German nose ring, curb, flax brake brake²

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English from Old French brac from oblique form of bras arm bracer²

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English from Middle Dutch from Middle Low German bhreg- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Apparently a shortened form of bracken. (Compare chick, chicken.)

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• Middle English from Middle Low German bhreg- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English probably back-formation from braken bracken

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Compare Middle Low German brake.

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• From Old Dutch braeke.

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• Origin uncertain.

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• Inflected forms.

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