bruin
nounUK /ˈbɹuːɪn/
Etymology From Middle Dutch bruun (“brown”) via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his brown color. Doublet of brown.
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A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
- The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XVII:
- Related terms
- oud bruin