bruyère

French

Etymology

From Old French bruiere, from Latin brugaria, used in Latin for heather in several medieval texts, probably from Gaulish *bruco, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (compare Breton brug, Welsh/Cornish grug, and Irish fraoch).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʁɥi.jɛʁ/
Homophone: bruyères

Noun

bruyère f (plural bruyères)

Heather, brier.
A place of briers, a moor.

Further reading

“bruyère” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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