Brame

//bɹeɪm// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Intense passion or emotion; vexation. obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] hart-burning brame She ſhortly like a pyned ghoſt became."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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"[…] hart-burning brame She ſhortly like a pyned ghoſt became."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *brammjan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.

Etymology 2

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Bream. * As a French surname, of Occitan origin, from Old French brame (“cry, howl”), itself a Germanic borrowing from Frankish *brammjan (“to roar”).

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