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breac

breac

Irish

Adjective

breac (genitive singular masculine bric, genitive singular feminine brice, plural breaca, comparative brice)

  1. speckled, spotted

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

breac (present analytic breacann, future analytic breacfaidh, verbal noun breacadh, past participle breactha)

  1. to speckle

Conjugation

Noun

breac m (genitive singular bric, nominative plural bric)

  1. trout

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
breac bhreac mbreac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brecc (speckled, spotted, variegated).

Adjective

breac (comparative brice)

  1. speckled, spotted, piebald
  2. embossed
  3. chequered
Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative breac bhreac breaca
Vocative bhric bhric breac
Genitive bhric bhric/brice breac
Dative bhreac bhric breaca
Derived terms

Verb

breac (past bhreac, future breacaidh, verbal noun breacadh, past participle breacte)

  1. speckle
  2. sprinkle, scatter
Conjugation
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' breacadh --
Past bhreac bhreacadh
Future breacaidh breacar
Conditional bhreacadh bhreactadh

Etymology 2

From Old Irish brecc (trout).

Noun

breac m (genitive singular bric, plural bric)

  1. trout, brown trout
  2. (dialect) salmon

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • 1 brecc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • 2 brecc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.