brink

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
2. The edge or border.

Konzepte

Rand

Grenze

Kante

Seite

mütterliche Verwandte

entscheidender Moment

Begrenzung

kritischer Moment

Synonyme

edge

border

brim

verge

rim

fringe

margin

side

edging

critical moment

brow

hem

periphery

threshold

perimeter

end

🔚

bank

🏦

rand

lip

wale

outer edge

margin, rand, brim, border

limit

beach

🏖️

bluff

borderline

boundary

bulwark

coast

cusp

extremity

flange

gunwale

ledge

marge

outskirts

peripherals

point

seashore

seaside

shore

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/bɹɪŋk/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”).