breixo

Galician

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *broccius, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (see also Welsh grug, Old Irish froech, Irish fraoch), probably from an unknown non-Indo-European source (compare Czech vřes from Proto-Slavic *versъ, Latvian vìrsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾejʃo̝/

Noun

breixo m (plural breixos)

1. heather, especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica

Synonyms

• (heather): torga, uz