bhreg-

bhreg-
To break.
Derivatives include breach, fraction, frail1, infringe, and suffrage.
1.
a. break, from Old English brecan, to break;
b. breach, from Old English brēc, a breaking;
c. brash2, breccia, from Italian breccia, breccia, rubble, breach in a wall, from Old High German *brehha, from brehhan, to break;
d. bray2, from Old French breier, to break;
e. brioche, from Old French brier, dialectal variant of broyer, to knead. a-e all from Germanic *brekan.
2. bracken, brake4, from Middle English brake(n), bracken, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *brakni, undergrowth;
b. brake5, from Middle Low German brake, thicket. Both a and b from Germanic *brak-, bushes (< “that which impedes motion”).
3. brake2, from Middle Low German brake, flax brake, from Germanic *brāk-, crushing instruments.
5.
a. suffragan, suffrage, from Latin suffrāgium, the right to vote, from suffrāgārī, to vote for (? < “to use a broken piece of tile as a ballot”);
b. irrefragable, from Latin refrāgārī, to vote against.
 
[Pokorny 1. bhreg̑- 165 (but not on good evidence).]

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