brest

brest (plural brests)

1. Obsolete spelling of breast
   • Edmund Spenser

     Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

• Streb

From Old English brēost, from Proto-Germanic *breustą.

• breste, breost, breist, brost, brust, brist, breast, bryest

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /brøːst/
• IPA^(key): /breːst/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /brɛst/

brest (plural brestes or bresten)

1. chest, thorax
2. The breast in several contexts:
   1. breast (protrusion on the front of the chest)
   2. female breast (for nursing)
   3. breast (cut of meat)
   4. breast, heart (centre of emotional functioning)
3. breastplate, chest plate
4. womb
5. The front portion of a band or troop

• English: brest
• Scots: brest, breist, breest

• “brẹ̄st (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

From Old English byrst and Old Norse brestr, both from Proto-Germanic *brestuz.

• berst, barst

• IPA^(key): /brɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

brest (plural brestes)

1. A breaking or smashing.
2. A noise or clamour.
3. Damage or injury.
4. Neediness.

• English: bryst (obsolete)

• “brest (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

From Old Norse brestr

brest m (definite singular bresten, indefinite plural brestar or brester, definite plural brestane or brestene)

1. a crack

   Det er ein brest i dette glaset.

   There is a crack in this glass.

2. a flaw

   Det er ein brest i logikken din.

   There is a flaw in your logic.

• “brest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• (Ijekavian): brijest

From Proto-Slavic *berstъ.

brest m (Cyrillic spelling брест)

1. elm

From Proto-Slavic *berstъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrèːst/, /ˈbréːst/, /ˈbrɛ́st/
• Tonal orthography: brẹ́st, brẹ̑st, brȅst

brést or brèst m inan (genitive brésta, nominative plural brésti)

1. elm (tree)

From Old Norse bresta, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”).

brest (preterite brestä)

1. (transitive) unpick, rip apart what is sewn
2. (intransitive) sprout, malt; of seed and seed grain