brey

See also: Brey

English

Verb

brey (third-person singular simple present breys, present participle breying, simple past and past participle breyed)

  1. (South Africa, transitive) To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish breth, breith, verbal noun of beirid (“carries, bears, brings forth”).

Noun

brey f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. verbal noun of behr
  2. bearing (of child)

Mutation

Mutation of brey
radical lenition eclipsis
brey vrey mrey

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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