brestr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *brestuz (“fracture, impairment”), a u-stem, reanalyzed as an i-stem. === Pronunciation === (12th Century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbres.tr̩/ === Noun === brestr m (plural bestir) chink, crack want, loss, lack ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== bresta ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “brestr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive