Translation
brown
Word origin
From French brun and German braun, a Germanic colour root that also gives English brown and, via French, brunette.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- brun
- English cognates
- brown, brunette
Examples
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He has brown eyes and brown hair.
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The brown leaves fell from the trees.
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The dog is big and brown.
covers the browns from tea to chestnut and behaves like any adjective, agreeing in number and case. For the browns of people, Esperanto is more specific than English: brown hair is and a brown-haired person o or o, while suntanned skin is usually sunbruna or the verb sunbruniĝi, to tan. Shades come free with the affixes: helbruna light brown, malhelbruna dark brown, a brownish, and that is the whole system.
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