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brouette

brouette

See also: brouetté

French

brouette

Noun

brouette f ‎(plural brouettes)

  1. wheelbarrow; barrow (small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand)

Derived terms

Verb

brouette

  1. first-person singular present indicative of brouetter
  2. third-person singular present indicative of brouetter
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of brouetter
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of brouetter
  5. second-person singular imperative of brouetter

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • brouete (approximately as common)

Noun

brouette f (plural brouettes)

  1. wheelbarrow

Etymology

From Middle French brouette, from Old French baroueste ‎(“barrow, dumper with one wheel”), diminutive of barot ‎(“barrow”), from Frankish *barwa, *berwa ‎(“barrow”), from Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ, *barwǭ ‎(“barrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- ‎(“to carry, bear”). Compare French dialectal barou ‎(Rouchi, “barrow”), barotte ‎(Génevois, “barrow”), barrô ‎(Burgundy, “barrow”), Italian baroccio ‎(“cart”) from the same Germanic source. See birouchette. Cognate with Middle Dutch berie ‎(“barrow”), Middle High German bere ‎(“barrow”), Old English bearwe ‎(“barrow”). More at barrow.

Old French baroueste was assimilated in form to Old French brouete, berouette, berouaite ‎(“small two-wheeled cart”), believed to be a diminutive of Old Northern French *beroue, from Latin birota ‎(“a two-wheel cart, usually drawn by horse or mule”), which may have additionally been conflated with the Germanic forms above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁu.ɛt/

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