briseadh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brised, brissed, verbal noun of brisid (“to break, smash, destroy”). Synchronically analyzable as bris +‎ -adh (verbal noun suffix)

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Galway) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃə/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃuː/
  • (Ulster) 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”)

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation 1

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəɡ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəvˠ/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃu/

Verb

briseadh

  1. past indicative autonomous of bris

Pronunciation 2

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəx/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃəx/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈbʲɾʲɪʃu/

Verb

briseadh

  1. inflection of bris:
    1. third-person singular imperative
    2. past subjunctive analytic

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
briseadh bhriseadh mbriseadh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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