brain – English noun declension

English noun forms of brain

Noun: brain
Singularbrain
Pluralbrains

Sample Sentences

  • The Ueynes are ſpred foorth throughout the whole bodie, howbeit from one welhead, that is to ſay from the Liuer: ſo be the Sinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewiſe are the Heartſtrings, howbeit from the Heart. [1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is but Onely One God”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 18:]
  • The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49:]
  • Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found. [2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:]
  • The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule. [1892, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Asclepiad, London, page 357:]
  • What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man. The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113:]
  • caused the young Princess, the King's only Daughter, to be taken and thrust into a large velvet Sack, and her Brains to be knockt out with great Bars [1690, “Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page ii:]
  • I have too much on my brain today.
  • And I should tell him all my pain, / ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, / ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state / And marvel what possess’d my brain; […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 22:]
  • "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines. [2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8]
  • She has a lot of brains.
  • She was a total brain.
  • Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks. [2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:]
  • He is the brains behind the scheme.
  • Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.
  • The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.
  • Have you ever popped champagne on a plane, while gettin' some brain? [2007, “Good Life”, in Graduation, performed by Kanye West ft. T-Pain:]
  • You said I got brain from your dame in the range / In the passing lane / But you really ain't got no proof [2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It:]
  • Got your nigga going / Going insane and so do I when he give me brain [2012, “Boss Ass Bitch”, performed by PTAF:]
  • She giving brain / She eat the dick up like some M&Ms [2018, “Squidrific”, performed by SahBabii:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s
5. Proto-Germanic *bragną
6. Proto-West Germanic *bragn
7. Old English bræġn
8. Middle English brayn
9. English brain
10. Inherited from Middle English brayn, from Old English bræġn, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną, from Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s, from *mregʰ- + *-n̥.
11. Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”). See: Dutch Nouns 'brein', German Nouns 'Bregen'.

Verbs referencing "brain"

Dutch Nouns brein, Ancient Greek Nouns βρέγμα, German Nouns Bregen, German Nouns Brain.