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See also: Brey
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]brey (third-person singular simple present breys, present participle breying, simple past and past participle breyed)
- (South Africa, transitive) To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish breth, breith, verbal noun of beirid (“carries, bears, brings forth”).
Noun
[edit]brey f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- verbal noun of behr
- bearing (of child)
Mutation
[edit]| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| brey | vrey | mrey |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||