Braun
/bʁaʊn/noun
A German word meaning brown.
Did you know?Braun is the modern German descendant of a very old Germanic color word, part of the same ancient family that gave English its everyday word brown.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*brūnaz
“brown, dark-colored”
Old High German
OHG
brūn
“brown, dark, shining dark”
Old English
OE
brūn
“brown, dark, dusky”
Middle High German
MHG
brūn
“brown”
Modern German
German
braun
“brown”