brear

Galician

Etymology

From French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to English brew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado)
brear (first-person singular present breio, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to tar
2. (transitive) to beat up

Conjugation

Related terms

• brea

References

• “brear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “brear” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “brear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “brear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

brear m

1. indefinite plural of bre

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to brew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bre‧ar

Verb

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breé, past participle breado)

1. (obsolete, rare) to dip in tar (see embrear)
2. (by extension) to abuse, to mistreat, to mock

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “brear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “brea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 657