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Middle Dutch brief (cognate)
←
English brief (cognate)
←
Middle High German brief (inherited)
←
Old High German briaf (inherited)
←
Old Norse bréf (cognate)
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Old Saxon brēf (cognate)
→
Cimbrian briif (cognate)
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Pennsylvania German Brief (cognate)
→
Silesian brif (borrowed)
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Yiddish בריוו (cognate)