bruyère

From Old French bruiere (whence also Norman brüethe), from Vulgar Latin *brūcāria or Medieval Latin brūgāria (used in Latin for “heather” in several medieval texts), a derivative of Late Latin *brūcus (“heather”), from Gaulish *brūcos, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos.

Compare Breton brug, Welsh/Cornish grug, and Irish fraoch; also cognate to Occitan bruguièra, Catalan bruguera, Lombard brughera, and Italian brughiera.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɥi.jɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

bruyère f (plural bruyères)

1. heather, heath, brier
2. a place of briers, a moor

• coq de bruyère

• “bruyère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.