brūns

Etymology
Borrowed from and (perhaps). This term was probably introduced in the 15th century, together with brown-colored clothes, very appreciated at the time. It is, however, not mentioned in dictionaries until the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century (some sources claim that brown-colored clothes were not frequent in Latvia until the 18th century). Previously, the notion of brown color was expressed only with (for hair, eyes) and  (for horses).

Adjective



 * 1) brown having the color of, e.g., chocolate, or of the ground coffee