Galician
Verb
breo
- first-person singular present indicative of brear
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish breó.
Pronunciation
Noun
breo m (genitive singular breo, nominative plural breonna)
- brand, torch
- glow
Declension
Declension of breo (fourth declension)
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Derived terms
- breoch (“glowing”, adjective)
- breochloch f (“flint”)
- breoga (“fiery”, adjective)
- breoigh (“glow; heat; sear; sicken”, verb)
- breolampa m (“glow-lamp”)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish breóad, verbal noun of breóaid (“burns; enfeebles, weakens, injures, crushes”).
Pronunciation
Noun
breo m (genitive singular breo or breoite)
- verbal noun of breoigh
Declension
- Substantive
Declension of breo (fourth declension, no plural)
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- Verbal noun
Declension of breo (irregular, no plural)
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Derived terms
- breo croí (“repining, heart-sickness”)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Verb
breo
- present subjunctive analytic of breoigh
Mutation
Mutated forms of breo
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lenition
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eclipsis
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bhreo
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mbreo
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “breó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “breóad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “breo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 56
- “breo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
References
Spanish
Verb
breo
- first-person singular present indicative of brear
