Irish

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəx]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ] (before sé, sí, sibh); [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəx] (elsewhere)
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ] (before sé, sí, sibh); IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃuː]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ] (before sé, sí, sibh); IPA^(key): [ˈbʲɾʲɪʃu]

Noun

briseadh m ‎(genitive singular briste, nominative plural bristeacha)

1. verbal noun of bris
2. break, the act of breaking; breakage
3. disruption, dismissal
4. (of money, etc.) change
5. battle; defeat
6. (in the plural) breakers

Declension

Derived terms

• briseadh airgid ‎(“small change”)
• briseadh an lae ‎(“daybreak”)
• briseadh croí, croíbhriseadh ‎(“heartbreak”)

Verb

briseadh

1. past autonomous of bris
2. imperative analytic of bris
3. past subjunctive analytic of bris

Mutation

References

• "briseadh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bris(s)ed” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brised, brissed, verbal noun of brisid ‎(“breaks, smashes, destroys”).

Noun

briseadh m ‎(genitive singular brisidh, plural brisidhean)

1. verbal noun of bris
2. bankruptcy
3. breach

Derived terms

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
• “bris(s)ed” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.