brombeer
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ˈbrɔmbeːr/
noun
Definitions
- grouch, grump (usually male)
Etymology
Compound from Dutch, Flemish brommen (buzz, hum, drone, bellow, grumble) + Dutch, Flemish beer (bear, liquid waste, boar, a bear, liquid manure).
Origin
Dutch (Brabantic)
beer
Gloss
bear, liquid waste, boar, a bear, liquid manure
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
熊
Emoji
🐨 🐻❄️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Beerenberg Dutch, Flemish
- asbeer Dutch, Flemish
- beer Dutch, Flemish
- beerkar Dutch, Flemish
- beerput Dutch, Flemish
- bere- Dutch, Flemish
- berenleider Dutch, Flemish
- berig Dutch, Flemish
- berin Dutch, Flemish
- bromfiets Dutch, Flemish
- brommen Dutch, Flemish
- brommer Dutch, Flemish
- brompot Dutch, Flemish
- bromtol Dutch, Flemish
- gebrom Dutch, Flemish
- grottenbeer Dutch, Flemish
- holenbeer Dutch, Flemish
- ijsbeer Dutch, Flemish
- knuffelbeer Dutch, Flemish
- manbeer Dutch, Flemish
- neusbeer Dutch, Flemish
- poolbeer Dutch, Flemish
- rukbeer Dutch, Flemish
- sneeuwbeer Dutch, Flemish
- steunbeer Dutch, Flemish
- wasbeer Dutch, Flemish
- weerbeer Dutch, Flemish
- zeebeer Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰrem- Proto-Indo-European
- *berô Proto-Germanic
- brompit Indonesian
- bēre Middle Dutch
- beer Afrikaans