Bryngen

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic verb meaning to carry or convey someone or something to a particular place ; to cause a result or condition to come about
2. Middle English verb for taking or conveying an object to a place ; for producing or effecting a state of affairs or outcome
3. An older form of the verb to bring, used to mean transporting something to a location ; also meaning to lead to or produce a consequence

Etymology: "Bryngen" is an Old English verb, meaning "to bring," and it is the ancestor of the modern English word. Its past tense was "brōhte," which is where "brought" comes from, so the modern verb has kept the older past-tense form while the present tense itself has been replaced by "bring" with its own vowel. Because the verb was so common, it survived almost unchanged in the core of the language, unlike many Old English words that were lost to French and Latin borrowings. The "-en" ending marks it as an infinitive, the basic form of the verb, which is why the modern English form is simply "bring." The Old English "y" sound in this verb is a remnant of an earlier vowel change that also shaped other words in the family. Words such as "bring" and "brought" show how a single root can split into a present form and a past form that look quite different from each other.