bresta

From Old Norse bresta, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”).

bresta (third person singular past indicative brast, third person plural past indicative brustu, supine brostið)

1. to burst, to break

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛsta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta

From Old Norse bresta, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”).

Cognate with Faroese bresta, Swedish brista, English burst, German bersten, Dutch barsten.

bresta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative brast, third-person plural past indicative brustu, supine brostið)

1. to burst, to break
   • Það er bara tímaspursmál hvenær stíflan brestur.

     It's only a question of time when the dam will burst.

2. (impersonal) to cause to lack (to cause to experience a shortcoming of) [with accusative ‘someone’ (preceding) and accusative ‘something’ (following)] (idiomatically translated as "lack" with the preceding accusative object as the subject)

   Drottinn er minn hirðir, mig mun ekkert bresta.

   The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want (lit. “I shall want for nothing”).

Inflected form of brestur (“crack, crackle”).

bresta m

1. indefinite genitive plural of brestur

• berast