brey

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English

Verb

brey (third-person singular simple present breys, present participle breying, simple past and past participle breyed)

  1. (South Africa, transitive) To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish breth, breith, verbal noun of beirid (carries, bears, brings forth).

Noun

brey f (genitive singular , plural )

  1. verbal noun of behr
  2. bearing (of child)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brey vrey mrey
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.