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[3] barmi ‘bosom-brother’: This is a poetic word for ‘brother’. AEW derives barmi m. from Gmc *ga-barman (cf. barmr ‘m. bosom’; hence ‘fed at the same breast’). See also SnE 1998, II, 239.