breall
Irish
Alternative forms
- brille (clitoris)
Etymology
From Old Irish brell (“blur, spot, stain, etc.; slur, blemish, etc.; tumour, a hump, knob or botch; the glans penis, etc.”).
Noun
breall f or m (genitive singular breille or breill, nominative plural brealla)
- (anatomy) glans penis; clitoris
- (ugly) protuberance
- blubber lip, fat lip
- Synonyms: liobar líota, meill
- blemish, defect
- rag, clout
- blunderer, fool
Declension
Declension of breall
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative plural: breallacha
Derived terms
- breallach, breallúil (“protuberant; blubber-lipped; ragged, tattered; blundering, foolish”, adjective)
- breallaire m (“silly talker, fool”)
- breallán m (“ragged person; blunderer, fool”)
- breallmhéarach (“clumsy-fingered”, adjective)
- breallóg f (“slattern; foolish, talkative woman”)
Related terms
- breallaireacht f (“silliness, silly talk”)
- breallánta (“silly”, adjective)
- breallántacht f (“(act of) talking nonsense; silliness, nonsense”)
- breallógacht f (“slatternliness; slovenly work”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
breall | bhreall | mbreall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “breall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “breall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024