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Etymology
From Middle English *brylen (“to singe, scorch, attested in bryled”).
Pronunciation
Noun
breal
- A large fire.[2]
1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:Trippeathès an brand-eyrons war ee-brougkt to a big breal.
References
- ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155
- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27