bran

noun
/ˈbɹæn/UK

Etymology

From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).

  1. derived from *bʰreHg-
  2. derived from *bragnos — “rotten, foul
  3. derived from brennos — “rotten
  4. derived from bren
  5. inherited from bran

Definitions

  1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the…

    The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

  2. To clean (metal) using a branner.

  3. The European carrion crow.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bran. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bran. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at bran

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA