# brant
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɹænt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænt

### Etymology 1

From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).

#### Noun

brant (plural brants or brant)
* (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
** 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

##### Derived terms

* brant-fox
* brant goose
* sea brant

##### References

* ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 70, 77.
* ↑ Kear, Janet (2005): Ducks, Geese and Swans: General chapters, species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina), p. 306
* ↑ Sandrock & Prior (2014): The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest, p. 25

##### Further reading

* brant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Branta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Etymology 2

From Middle English brant, from Old English brant (“high, steep”), from Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“steep, towering”). Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

#### Alternative forms

* brent

#### Adjective

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)
* (dialectal) steep, precipitous.
** 1551, Roger Ascham, letter to Mr. Edward Raven:Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
* (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
** 1828, Robert Burns, John Anderson:Your bonnie brow was brent.

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *brant

### Noun

brant m
* fire
* burning piece of wood, brand
* firewood, fuel
* burn (mark on the skin or something else)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Alternative forms

* brand

#### Derived terms

* branden

#### Descendants

* Dutch: brand
** Afrikaans: brand
* Limburgish: brandj

### Further reading

* “brant (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “brant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* brente (transitive)

### Verb

brant
* intransitive simple past of brenne

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* bront

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *brant, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz (“high, steep, towering”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”), related to Old Norse brant (“precipice”), Old Norse bretta (“to lift up, raise”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).
Cognate also with Old Norse brattr (“steep, towering, harsh, difficult”), Old Swedish branter, Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brɑnt/

### Adjective

brant
* tall, high, steep

#### Derived terms

* brenting

#### Descendants

* Middle English: brant, brent
** English: brant
** Scots: brent

### References

* Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Accessed August 5, 2005.
* “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

## Old French
### Noun

brant oblique singular, m (oblique plural branz or brantz, nominative singular branz or brantz, nominative plural brant)
* Alternative form of branc

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* *bratt — Western dialect

### Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), as well as barmr (“rim, edge”).

### Noun

brant n
* (Eastern dialect) steepness
* (Eastern dialect) precipice

#### Further reading

* Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Accessed August 5, 2005.
* “brant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse brantr, (West Norse brattr), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).
Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)
* steep (sharply inclined)
    Cykla uppför en brant backeRide up a steep slope

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* tvärbrant (“sheer, precipitous”)

#### Related terms

* branthet

#### See also

* bråd

### Noun

brant c
* a steeply sloping side of a landform, a precipice

#### Derived terms

* stå på ruinens brant

#### See also

* stup

### References

* brant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* brant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* brant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German brant, from Old High German brant, from Proto-West Germanic *brand.

### Noun

brant m
* fire, blaze
* gangrene
* grain smut