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Breker
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/bɾɛɪ̯kɐ/
noun
Syllabication:
Bre·ker
Plural:
Brekers
m
de Breker
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Stader Geest:
Marcus Buck: attested by oral sources on the Stade Geest
Low Saxon:
een
,
de
wat
brickt
English:
breaker
Dutch:
breker
German:
Brecher
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 1, page 276
Holsteiner jüm-Gebiet:
Boysen van Nienkarken:
Leeder und Stückschen in Ditmarscher Platt.
Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1865, page 290
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Hamburg:
Rudolf Kinau:
Lanterne.
page 134
Low Saxon:
hoge
Wach
English:
breaker
Dutch:
breker
German:
Brecher
Sturzsee
Examples:
En
groten
Breker
is
över
dat
Boot
slahn
un
hett
mi
meist
in
’t
Water
spöölt
.
Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 1, page 276
Low Saxon:
en
teemlich
kräftigen
Keerl
English:
mountain
of
a
man
German:
Brecher
Examples:
He
is
en
Breker
von
Keerl
!
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
breken
+
-er
Composed words:
Iesbreker
Knakenbreker
Tähnbreker
Tungenbreker
Rhyming words
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