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Brink

//bɹɪŋk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.

    "the brink of a river"

  2. 2
    the limit beyond which something happens or changes wordnet
  3. 3
    The edge or border. figuratively

    "the brink of success"

  4. 4
    the edge of a steep place wordnet
  5. 5
    a region marking a boundary wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”).

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