bráð

• IPA^(key): /ˈprauːð/

  Rhymes: -auːð

From Old Norse bráð, related to býti (“exchange”). Cognate with Old English brad and German Brat.

bráð f (genitive singular bráðar, nominative plural bráðir)

1. a prey, a victim
2. game, wild animals hunted for food

• (victim): fórnarlamb n
• (game): villibráð

• “bráð” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen

From the Old Norse bráð.

bráð f (genitive singular bráðar, no plural)

1. denoting haste, but only used in the adverbial phrase í bráð (“for the time being, at the moment”).

• í bráð

• bráðum
• bráður

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bráð

1. inflection of bráður:
   1. feminine singular nominative strong positive degree
   2. neuter plural nominative strong positive degree
   3. neuter plural accusative strong positive degree

From Proto-Germanic *brēdô m (“flesh, muscle”), whence ultimately also English brawn.

bráð f (genitive bráðar, plural bráðir)

1. meat, raw flesh

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