A Scottish or dialect word for a young bird or a small creature; an archaic or regional term for a bird.
From Old English bridde, related to German Brut (brood). The word is primarily Scottish and represents a shortened or colloquial form of 'bird' that survives in regional dialects.
Brid is a linguistic fossil showing how regional Scottish speech preserved an older form of the word 'bird'—it's proof that dialects aren't just accents but actual time-capsules of earlier English.
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