breinn

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brén (“putrid, stinking, rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg-.

Adjective

breinn

  1. nasty, foul
  2. rotten, rancid, putrid
  3. smelly, fetid, malodorous
    T'eh breinn. ― It stinks.
  4. loathsome, offensive
  5. (film, literature, pornography) blue
  6. pestilential

Mutation

Mutation of breinn
radical lenition eclipsis
breinn vreinn mreinn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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