Bremble
/ˈbrɛm.bəl/noun
A dialectal or obsolete form of “bramble,” meaning a thorny blackberry plant.
Did you know?Bremble preserves an old Germanic naming pattern for thorny shrubs, later surviving mainly in regional English alongside the standard form “bramble.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*bramōn
“A thorny or prickly shrub; reconstructed ancestor of later Germanic blackberry words.”
Old English
Old English
bræmel / brǣmel
“Bramble or blackberry bush.”
Middle English
Middle English
brembel
“A thorny blackberry plant; a variant spelling influenced by vowel change.”
15th–17th Century
English dialects
bremble
“A regional or archaic form of “bramble,” especially referring to the blackberry bush.”
Modern English
English
bremble
“A rare dialectal or obsolete word for bramble.”