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Brink

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means the edge of a steep place, or the point just before something begins or ends
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Stage 1 of 2
brekka
Old Norse · medieval
"a steep edge, a slope"
a steep slope, a hillside edge
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Stage 2 of 2
brink
English · 1300s
"the edge of a steep place, or the point just before something happens"
settled as the English word for the edge of a steep place
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