# brig
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɹɪɡ/
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* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

#### Noun

brig (plural brigs)
* (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
* (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

##### Derived terms

* brig rat

##### Descendants

* → French: brick
** → Romanian: bric
** → Ottoman Turkish: بریق (brik)
*** Turkish: brik
* → Irish: bruig
* → Portuguese: brigue

##### See also

* hermaphrodite brig
* gun-brig

#### Verb

brig (third-person singular simple present brigs, present participle brigging, simple past and past participle brigged)
* (US, military slang, dated) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
* (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

##### See also

* goldbrick

##### References

* Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 22

### Etymology 2

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.

#### Noun

brig (plural brigs)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
** 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;

##### Derived terms

* Brig o' Turk

### Etymology 3

Clipping of brigadier

#### Noun

brig (plural brigs)
* Brigadier.

### References

* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

### Anagrams

* BIRG, RGBI

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bryċġ.

#### Noun

brig
* Alternative form of brigge

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

#### Noun

brig
* bridge

##### Alternative forms

* brigg, bryg, bregg

##### Descendants

* Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
** → English: brig, brigg

## Old English
### Noun

brīġ m
* Alternative form of brīw

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʲrʲiɣʲ/

### Noun

brig
* inflection of brí:
** accusative/dative singular
** nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Polabian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brik/

### Noun

brig m ?
* bank, shore (of a river)

### References

* Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “brig”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 52
* Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “brig”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 41

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* brigg, breeg

### Etymology

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

### Noun

brig
* bridge
    Stirling Brig ― Stirling Bridge
** 1839, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎:“Dinna flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre […].“Don’t flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre.

#### Descendants

* → English: brig, brigg

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* brȇg (Ekavian)
* brijȇg (Ijekavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

### Noun

brȋg m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑г)
* hill, hillock (smaller hill)

#### Related terms

* brižje

## Welsh
### Etymology

Morris Jones derives it from Proto-Celtic *krīkʷā (“trench; boundary”) [see crib (“comb; ridge”)], by metathesis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /briːɡ/
* Rhymes: -iːɡ

### Noun

brig pl (no singulative)
* treetop, crown of a tree
* crest, peak, summit, top
* hair (on head)
    Synonym: gwallt

#### Derived terms

* ar frig y byd (“on top of the world”)
* brigau'r twynau (“lady's bedstraw”)
* briger (“tresses, locks”)
* brig Gwener (“maidenhair fern”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 97 v 3