embrouiller
French
verb
Definitions
- to entangle
- (informal) to bamboozle, to confuse
Etymology
Affix from French brouiller (confuse) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (boil, brew, seethe, be hot, boil up, sprout, ferment, roil).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrewh₁-
Gloss
boil, brew, seethe, be hot, boil up, sprout, ferment, roil
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
醸
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disembroil English
- embroil English
- embroiler English
- embroileth English
- embroilment English
- imbroglio English
- Furina Latin
- brado Latin
- dēfervēscere Latin
- dēfrutum Latin
- ferveo Latin
- fervēre Latin
- fretale Latin
- frutex Latin
- brogliare Italian
- imbrogliare Italian
- imbroglio Italian
- imbroglione Italian
- rimbrogliare Italian
- gebrouilleerd Dutch, Flemish
- brouillable French
- brouillage French
- brouiller French
- brouilleur French
- brouillon French
- débrouiller French
- embrollar Spanish, Castilian
- βρῦτος Ancient Greek
- *bʰerwyeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrenw- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrewh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruto- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrē- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰr̥u̯n̥ti̯ah₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *brannijaną Proto-Germanic
- *brasō Proto-Germanic
- *brewwaną Proto-Germanic
- *brunnô Proto-Germanic
- *brunstiz Proto-Germanic
- *bruþą Proto-Germanic
- *brēdaną Proto-Germanic
- brugga Old Norse
- broueillier Old French
- burga Galician
- bruia Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- brouiller Middle French
- *an- Proto-Celtic
- *beru Proto-Celtic
- *borvo Proto-Celtic
- *brutus Proto-Celtic
- *fruto- Proto-Italic
- *brāu Proto-Albanian
- Borvo Gaulish