bremar

From Suevic *breman,[1] from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make noise”). Doublet of bramar. Cognate with Spanish bramar, French bramer, Italian bramire, Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”).

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈmaɾ/

bremar (first-person singular present bremo, first-person singular preterite bremei, past participle bremado)

1. (intransitive) to fret; to covet; to disquiet
   • 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     En consensia xa podía, porque vos anda bremando o señor Dn Xoán Oliva que está facendo as súas veces

     Conscientiously, he should, because Don Xoán Oliva, who is covering his absecence, is fretting

   • 1813, anonymous author, Decima constitucional:

     bufe o escribano ladrón, que o pelexo me sacou, e breme o que me acabou con trabucos, e liortas: gráceas dan as miñas portas a quen así os xiringou.

     let hiss the thievery scribe, who skinned me; and let fret the one who finished me with tributes, and struggles: my doors thank those who disturbed them so

2. (intransitive) to roar

   Synonym: bramar

• brama (“deer mating season”)
• bramar
• bramido (“troat”)

• “bremar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bremar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.