breac

From Old Irish brecc (“speckled, spotted; trout”),^[1][2] from Proto-Celtic *brikkos. Cognate with Breton breac’h and Welsh brych.

The verb is from Middle Irish breccaid (“to speckle”), from the adjective.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲak/^[4][5][6]

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

1. speckled, spotted

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

1. to speckle

breac m (genitive singular bric, nominative plural bric)

1. trout

• breac donn m (“brown trout”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “breac”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 82
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /bræ͜ɑːk/

brēac

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of brūcan

• IPA^(key): /b̥ɾʲɛxk/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /b̥ðek/^[1],
• (Barra) IPA^(key): ^[2]

From Old Irish brecc (“speckled, spotted, variegated”), from Proto-Celtic *brikkos.

breac (comparative brice)

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

• am fiabhras breac
• fòghnan-breac
• iolair-bhreac

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

1. speckle
2. sprinkle, scatter

From Old Irish brecc (“trout”).

breac m (genitive singular bric, plural bric)

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “breac”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 brecc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 brecc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language