Noun: brath
| Singular | brath |
| Plural | braths |
Sample Sentences
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Yet Trueth, if Caitiues brath might call thee this, / Witnes with mee, that I fowle ſtumbling fell: / From careleſnes did in no manner growe, / But wit confuſd with too much care did miſſe. [1591, P[hilip] S[idney], “[Sonnet 93]”, in Sir P. S. His Astrophel and Stella […], London: […] [John Danter] for Thomas Newman, →OCLC, page 39:]
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It is powerfull in helping extenuat and leane perſons who are troubled with difficultie of drawing their Brath: gives vigour and ſtrength to vithered and debilitat members; […] [1618, Patri[c]k Anderson, The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig […], Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like brath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English brath, from Old Norse bráð (“haste”), from bráðr (“hasty”). See above. See: Old Norse Nouns '
bráð'.