BROWN

Sanskirt "बभ्रु (babhru)" meaning "deep-brown" could reveal the true meaning of the word "beaver" which is "a brown animal".

BRU-

---> Estonian: pruun

Old English: brūn

Scots: broon

Middle Low German: brûn

German Low German: bruun

Plautdietsch: brun

Middle Dutch: bruun

Dutch: bruin

Afrikaans: bruin

English: bruin

Old French: brun

Middle French: brun

French: brun

Mediaeval Latin: brūnus

Italian: bruno

Portuguese: bruno

Spanish: bruno

Romanian: brun

Old High German: brūn

Middle High German: brūn

Old Frisian: brūn

Saterland Frisian: bruun

West Frisian: brún

Old Saxon: brūn

Old Norse: brúnn

Icelandic: brúnn

Faroese: brúnur

Norn: brun

Norwegian: brun

Old Swedish: brūn

Swedish: brun

Elfdalian: brun

Old Danish: brūn

Danish: brun

Westrobothnian: brugn, bröun, breon

Jamtish: brún

Scanian: brúner

Latin: brunneus

Latgalian: bryuns

Latvian: brūns

Polish: brud ("dirt")

Belarusian: бруд (brud) ("dirt")

Ukrainian: бруд (brud) ("dirt")

RUD-

Lithuanian: rudas

BRA-

English: brown

Middle English: broun

Welsh: brown

German: braun

Elfdalian: braungen

BUR-

Urdu: بھورا‎‎ (bhūrā)

Hindi: भूरा (bhūrā)

Latin: burrus ("red, reddish-brown")

Ancient Greek: πυρρός (purrhós) "flame colored")

Polish: bury ("brownish dark grey")

BRI-

---> Georgian: ბრინჯაო (brinǯao) ("bronze")

Middle Persian: blnc (brinj) ("bronze, brass")

Manichaean Middle Persian: bryng (bring) ("bronze, brass")

BR-

Luxembourgish: brong

Polish: brąz (bronz)

Gutnish: bräunar

BAB-

Sanskrit: बाभ्रुक (babhruka) ("brownish")

Sanskirt: बभ्रु (babhru) ("deep-brown")

BAR-

Mitanni: barbru

OTHER

Pashto: بور‎‎ (bore), نسواري‎‎ (naswâri)

Old Armenian: պղինձ (płinj) ("copper")

Article published on the 30th of October 2018.