Guess the Word in Romlangs

[zyma]

Woo! I had *blooming forest in my head but didn't feel like it was idiomatic

I'll have a quick think to come up with one from Boral

Oh, would you consider that idiomatic? I derived the participle from this verb.

Re: "blooming", I call what I think of plants as doing most notably in spring "blooming". I'd probably describe them as "budding" during the transitional period between late winter and early spring. I just meant that it doesn't sound right to me to apply "blooming", or "budding" for that matter, to a noun like "forest" or "woodland" that refers to a group of plants. But it doesn't matter. Different people speak differently, nothing new.

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OK, my puzzle

l'entrig broðiar - verb phrase

Example:
Il broðin tojorn l'entrig.
They always X.

Is l'entrig a noun with a definite article?

[Jackk]

Is l'entrig a noun with a definite article?

Indeed.
Phonemic transcription, not that it helps:
/lɛn'tʁaj bro'ðjaʁ/

[zyma]

This is probably just a wild guess, but is l'entrig related to "enter" in any way?

[Jackk]

This is probably just a wild guess, but is l'entrig related to "enter" in any way?

Only in that the en- from both words descends ultimately from PIE *h1en- "in".

[zyma]

Well, it's something!

Do both words have ancestors in Classical Latin?

[Jackk]

Do both words have ancestors in Classical Latin?

hmm
entrig is a deverbal of a verb entrighar which does have a direct ancestor in Classical Latin, although entrig itself doesn't (as far as I know).

broðiar descends from an Early Gallo-Romance verb with non-Romance origins.

[LinguistCat]

Is broðiar related to brodeur (to embroider) from Old French?

[Jackk]

Is broðiar related to brodeur (to embroider) from Old French?

Not as far as I can tell.

[zyma]

Could l'entrig be interpreted as an argument of broðiar?

[Jackk]

Could l'entrig be interpreted as an argument of broðiar?

Indeed, this is an idiomatic expression of the form "to X the Y". Analogous constructions in English include:
to throw the game; to beg the question, to load the dice, to jump the gun, to go the distance

[GrandPiano]

Does entrighar come from Latin intricare?

[Jackk]

Does entrighar come from Latin intricare?

Correct!

Wiktionary defines Latin intricō as I entangle, perplex, embarrass. It is the source of English intrigue.

[zyma]

Does broðiar have a cognate in modern standard French?

[Jackk]

Does broðiar have a cognate in modern standard French?

Technically no, but really yes - that is, there are two variants of the word found in Gallo-Romance, one of which became broðiar and the other a modern French verb.

[zyma]

Does broðiar have a cognate in modern standard French?

Technically no, but really yes - that is, there are two variants of the word found in Gallo-Romance, one of which became broðiar and the other a modern French verb.

Hmm... does the French verb also begin with <b>?

[Jackk]

Hmm... does the French verb also begin with <b>?

Yes.

[zyma]

Hmm... does the French verb also begin with <b>?

Yes.

<br->?

[Jackk]

<br->?

Yes - <bro-> even

[spanick]

Is broðiar realted to Modern French brouiller from Gallo-Romance *brodiculare ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bruþą "broth"?

If so, would this idiomatically be translated into English as "to mix the pot"? Perhaps more literally meaning "to stir the broth"?

[Jackk]

Is broðiar realted to Modern French brouiller from Gallo-Romance *brodiculare ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bruþą "broth"?

If so, would this idiomatically be translated into English as "to mix the pot"? Perhaps more literally meaning "to stir the broth"?

It does indeed come from *brodicare and is analogous to French brouiller "blur, mix up, confuse, scramble (an egg), set at odds, put (someone) off (something) jam."

Its primary meaning (and the meaning it has in this construction) is not mix, stir however