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brydning

Pronunciation: /bryðneŋ/

“brydning” is a Danish word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. breaking
  2. mining, hewing
  3. conflict
  4. refraction (bending of waves)
  5. breaking (a change of a vowel to a diphthong)
  6. wrestling

Etymology

From bryde (“to break”) + -ing (verbal noun) (and brydes (“to wrestle”) + -ing). Cognate to Swedish brytning (“breaking”), brottning (“wrestling”).

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