brait

English

Etymology

Compare Welsh brith, feminine braith (“variegated”), Irish breá (“fine, comely”).

Noun

brait (plural braits)

  1. A rough diamond.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brait in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Irish

Noun

brait

  1. genitive singular of brat (“mantle, covering, curtain”)
  2. nominative plural of brat (“mantle, covering, curtain”)
  3. dative plural of brat (“mantle, covering, curtain”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brait bhrait mbrait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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