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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish bríathrach (“having many words; wordy, verbose”), from bríathar. By surface analysis, briathar + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
briathrach (genitive singular masculine briathraich)
- talkative, loquacious
- wordy, verbose
- Synonym: faclach
Derived terms
Mutation
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Lenition
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| briathrach |
bhriathrach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “briathrach”, 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), “bríathrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language