breug

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bréc (“falsehood, lie; deception”).

Noun

breug f (genitive singular brèige, plural breugan)

1. lie, falsehood (not truth)

   beul na brèige ― lying mouth

Derived terms

• breugach
• breugadair, breugaiche, breugaire
• breugag
• deòir nam breugan

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “breug”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bréc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language