brúnn

From Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.

• IPA^(key): /prutn/
• Rhymes: -utn

brúnn (comparative brúnni, superlative brúnastur)

1. brown

• brúna
• brúnka

Colors in Icelandic · litir (layout · text)

hvítur; mjallhvítur	grár	svartur
rauður; fagurrauður, djúprauður	appelsínugulur, gulrauður, órans (dated); brúnn, dökkbrúnn; fölvi, mórauður	gulur; rjómagulur
gulgrænn, mosagrænn	grænn
blágrænn; grænblár	heiðblár, fagurblár, himinblár, safírblár	blár
fjólublár; dimmfjólublár, indígóblár	blárauður; rauðfjólublár (fjólublár), purpuralitur	bleikur

• brúghann (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠuːn̪ˠ/

brúnn

1. present analytic of brúigh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brúnn	bhrúnn	mbrúnn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“grey, brown”).

brúnn

1. brown
2. (of polished metal) bright

• brúnaðr (“dark-coloured; grey”)
• brúnmóálóttr (“of mouse-grey colour with a black stripe down the back (of a horse)”)

• Icelandic: brúnn
• Faroese: brúnur
• Norn: brun
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brun, (dialectal) brun’u, brun’e, bron
• Jamtish: brún
• Elfdalian: braungen
• Old Swedish: brūn
  • Swedish: brun
    • → Elfdalian: brun
    • → Estonian: pruun
• Old Danish: brūn
  • Danish: brun
    • Norwegian Bokmål: brun
• Gutnish: bräunar
• Scanian: brúner

brúnn m (genitive brúns, plural brúnar)

1. a black horse

Colors in Old Norse · litir (layout · text)

hvítr	grár, hǫss	svartr
rauðr; rauðgulr	brúnn, jarpr	gulr
	grœnn
		blár
víolat

• brúnn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.