brait

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Welsh brith, feminine braith (variegated), Irish breá (fine, comely).

Noun[edit]

brait (plural braits)

  1. A rough diamond.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brait”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams[edit]

Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

brait m

  1. inflection of brat:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brait bhrait mbrait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German breit.

Adjective[edit]

brait

  1. broad; wide