breme

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breme

/bɹiːm/

Sounds like bream · Rhymes with -iːm

Where it comes from

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

adjective brim

Scotland, poetic Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous. Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.

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@misc{breme_2026,
  title = {breme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/breme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}