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brouette.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/bʁu.ɛt//bʁwɛt/

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

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French brouette, from Old French baroueste (“barrow, dumper with one wheel”), diminutive of barot (“barrow”), from Frankish *barwā, *barwijā (“barrow”), from Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ, *barwǭ (“barrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Compare Picard barou (“barrow”), Franco-Provençal barotte (“barrow”), Bourguignon barrô (“barrow”), Italian baroccio (“cart”) from the same Germanic source. 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.

verb/bʁu.ɛt//bʁwɛt/

  1. inflection of brouetter: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person

  2. inflection of brouetter: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French brouette, from Old French baroueste (“barrow, dumper with one wheel”), diminutive of barot (“barrow”), from Frankish *barwā, *barwijā (“barrow”), from Proto-Germanic *barwijǭ, *barwǭ (“barrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Compare Picard barou (“barrow”), Franco-Provençal barotte (“barrow”), Bourguignon barrô (“barrow”), Italian baroccio (“cart”) from the same Germanic source. 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.

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