Talk:brain

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 * #The physical aspect of the central nervous system, as opposed to mind.

reasons:
 * 1) brain is a synonym of (at least one meaning of) mind
 * 2) Entry was added in such a way as to fuck up the translations numbering
 * 3) It is redundant (definition #1 already says what this seems to be trying to convey.)

--Connel MacKenzie 06:45, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Etymology
Has anyone ever considered a connection between Proto-Germanic and Ancient Greek ? 74.185.212.232 22:14, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
 * There's the matter of the g in the Proto-Germanic, and there's an Ancient Greek cognate,, that would have to be explained. As odd as the etymologies look in both entries, they explain the facts better than your suggestion.
 * Also, the Greek word positions the mind/soul in a quite different part of the body: there was still debate in Greek times as to where it resided- so it's entirely possible that the Indo-Europeans wouldn't have seen any connection at all between the brain and the mind. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Unrelated, we have the etymology coming from /mregh-men/ and we gloss the second morpheme as "mind, to think" but unless there is some overt morphological marker that ties it to the word for mind, i would think a more likely candidate for the second morpheme is  PIE -mḗn which is seen at the end of many other such words. — Soap — 16:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

brain = oral sex?
Some possible citations (though they are from cheesy vanity-published books): Equinox ◑ 22:24, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * give brain? --Type56op9 (talk) 22:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I found a quote by a rapper about getting brain from someone's dame in the range--Type56op9 (talk) 22:42, 19 December 2014 (UTC)