It is indeed always interesting to see that it is not only the common words but also those little subleties, which are not noticable at the first glance, have survived in the different languages.

http://tyda.se/search/brista?lang[0]=en&lang[1]=de&lang[2]=s...

In Swedish, "brast" is the common and AFAIK only past tense of this word. Brista brast brustit.