breall

Irish

Alternative forms

• brille (clitoris)

Etymology

From Old Irish brell (“blur, spot, stain, etc.; slur, blemish, etc.; tumour, a hump, knob or botch; the glans penis, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲal̪ˠ/

Noun

breall f or m (genitive singular breille or breill, nominative plural brealla)

1. (anatomy) glans penis; clitoris
2. (ugly) protuberance
3. blubber-lip, fat lip

   Synonyms: liobar líota, meill

4. blemish, defect
5. rag, clout
6. blunderer, fool

Declension

Declension of breall

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative breall brealla Vocative a bhreall a bhrealla Genitive breille breall Dative breall brealla

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhreall na brealla Genitive na breille na mbreall Dative leis an mbreall don bhreall leis na brealla

• Alternative plural: breallacha

Derived terms

• breallach (“protuberant”, adjective)
• breallaire m (“fool”)
• breallán m (“ragged person”)
• breallmhéarach (“clumsy-fingered”, adjective)
• breallóg f (“slattern”)
• breallúil (“protuberant”, adjective)

 

Related terms

• breallaireacht f (“silliness, silly talk”)
• breallánta (“silly”, adjective)
• breallántacht f (“(act of) talking nonsense; silliness, nonsense”)
• breallógacht f (“slatternliness; slovenly work”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breall	bhreall	mbreall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “breall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “breall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79