briw

• briew

briw

1. person

   u briw

   man

   ka/ku briw

   woman

   ki briw

   people; persons

From Old Irish brithem (“judge, arbiter”).

• IPA^(key): /breu/

briw m (genitive singular briw, plural briwnyn)

1. judge, brehon

• briwnys
• ard-vriw
• lhiass-vriw

• brīu, brīġ, briiw, briiġ

From Proto-West Germanic *brīw.

• IPA^(key): /briːw/

brīw m

1. oatmeal, porridge

Strong a-stem:

• ġebrīwan

• Middle English: breie, bre
  • Scots: brie
  • English: bree

From Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”). Cognate with Irish brúigh (“crush”) and Latin frūstum (“piece, bit”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /brɪu̯/
• Rhymes: -ɪu̯

briw m (plural briwiau)

1. cut, sore, wound
2. bruise

   Synonym: clais

3. ulcer
4. afterbirth

   Synonym: brych

• brifo (“to hurt, to injure”)
• briwo (“to smash, to wound, to mangle”)
• briweg (“stonecrop”)
• briwydd (“bedstraw; kindling”)
• chwilbriw (“shattered”)

• brau (“brittle, weak”)