brinie
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Searchable Lemmata: byrne (OE), brinie (ME), broine (AF), brinie (MdE), byrnie (MdE).
Alternate Forms: byrne, brunie, burne, brenie, brenye, brini, brunye, brynye, bryn, breny, bruny, bryny, bryne, brene, bruine, broine, broigne, brune, brynige, bryniges, burnan, brunies, burnen, burnes, brinies, bryneys, brunyes, brynnyes, brenys, brenes, breneis, brenus, brunee, broines.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Armour;
coat of mail or armour for the body; a breastplate. The term, like Latin 'lorica' is often used metaphorically to refer to the armour of God, that is the ecclesiastical vestments.(ante 1050 - circa 1440)
5. Beowulf maðelode on him byrne scan, <searonet> seowed smiþes orþancum: Wæs þu, <Hroðgar>, hal.
Heroic, Poetic.
[DOE Beo (0109 (405))]
8. Ðær wæs on eorle eðgesyne brogden byrne ond bill gecost, geatolic guðscrud, grimhelm manig, ænlic eoforcumbul.
Biblical/Hagiographic, Heroic, Poetic.
[DOE El (0093 (256)) circa 750/1000]
Sex: Male Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.)
Garment;
corselet worn for ascetic self-mortification.(circa 1150)
Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Shoulder(s).
3(n.) ;
some kind of vestment. C. Rauer (2010) has argued that in this particular instance the word is derived from (or inspired by) L birrus (q.v.), which exists in a number of forms (e.g. byrrus, byrrum) in the Latin life of Pelagia from which the OE account was derived.(circa 900)
1. Þa on ðære eahtoðan nihte hyre fulwihtes þa gegyrede heo hy mid hærenre tunecan ond mid byrnan þæt is mid lytelre hacelan, ond heo næs na leng ðær gesewen, ac heo gewat on Oliuetes dune ond hyre timbrede lytle cytan in ðære stowe þe Crist him gebæd þa he wæs mon on eorðan.
Biblical/Hagiographic.
[DOE Mart 5 (Kotzor) (1198 (Oc 19, A.26)) ante 900]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, From Icelandic brynja and/or Scandinavian brynie, Old French brunie, bruine (a variant of broigne) and Old English byrne. Scandanavian probably the original source, given the resultant phonology in Middle English. Also cf. Old Irish bruinne (breast).
WF:
Etym Cog: brynja (OI), brunie (OF), brunja (OHG).
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