Question 1

What does "brelle" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

First person singular of the indicative present of the verb breller.
Third person singular of the indicative present of the verb breller.
First person singular of the subjunctive present of the verb breller.
Third person singular of the subjunctive present of the verb breller.
Second person singular of the imperative of the verb breller.

Question 2

Where does the French word "brelle" come from?

Accepted Answer

from Old French embraeler (1309), derived from brael (which later became braie), meaning 'belt', around 1120, and whose meaning corresponds to 'fix, with ropes, planks to beams, for the construction of a boat'. The verb brêler (or breller), with the same meaning, appears in the Littré in 1863. brelle, probably even older (1700), means 'small floating assembly made of wood'.

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