bristle – English noun declension

Noun: bristle

Singular	bristle
Plural	bristles

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bristle

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 bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'bristil', Dutch Nouns 'borstel', German Nouns 'Borste', Icelandic Nouns 'burst', Latin Nouns 'fastīgium', Polish Nouns 'barszcz'.

Verbs referencing "bristle"

Latin Nouns fastigium.