Noun: brunne
| Singular | brunne |
| Plural | brunnes |
Sample Sentences
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Their site, not on one of the hills behind, but on the dead flat meadow, was determined doubtless by the noble fountain, bourn, or brunne, which rises amongst the earthworks, and gives its name to the whole town. [1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 21:]
Nouns inflected like brunne
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 Old English burna, Old Norse brunnr. Doublet of bourn. See: Old English Nouns '
burna', Old Norse Nouns '
brunnr'.