breinn

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brén (“putrid, stinking, rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg-.

Adjective

breinn

  1. nasty, foul
  2. rotten, rancid, putrid
  3. smelly, fetid, malodorous
    • T'eh breinn. It stinks.
  4. loathsome, offensive
  5. (film, literature, pornography) blue
  6. pestilential

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
breinnvreinnmreinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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