breck

See also: Breck and Bréck

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brecc (“speckled, spotted; trout”). Cognate with Irish breac, Scottish Gaelic breac, Breton breac’h and Welsh brych.

Adjective

breck (plural breckey)

1. speckled, spotted
2. spotty, pocked
3. dappled (of horse)
4. piebald, pied, mottled, variegated, brindle
5. tartan, checkered
6. trout-coloured

Synonyms

• (tartan): breckanagh
• (checkered): breck-cherrinagh

Derived terms

• breckan (“brindle, plaid, tartan”)
• breck-chraueeaght, breck-chredjue (“mixed religion”)
• breck-emshir (“broken weather”)
• breck-ghoo (“crepuscular”)
• breck-lheeah (“greyish”)
• breck-yiarg (“red-spotted”)

 

Noun

breck m (genitive singular breck, plural brick)

1. speckle, spot

Derived terms

• breck 'sy vainney (“fly in the ointment”)
• breck greiney, breck 'sy ghrian, breck 'sy nane (“freckle”)
• breck kiark (“chickenpox”)
• breck ollee (“cowpox”)
• breckag (“fleck”) (of colour)
• breck-hooillagh (“wall-eyed, spotty-eyed”)

 

Noun

breck m (genitive singular breck, plural brick)

1. trout, brown trout

Derived terms

• breck airhey (“dory”)
• breck awin (“brown trout”)
• breck dhoan (“brown trout”)
• breck faasaagagh (“barbel”)
• breck fiddyr (“trout fry”)
• breck frangagh (“scad, horse mackerel”)
• breck gial (“rainbow trout, sea trout”)
• breck marrey (“mackerel”)
• breck ruy (“char”)
• breck Spaainagh (“Spanish mackerel”)
• breckagh (“trout-filled”)
• breck-ghone (“trout-brown”)

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breck	vreck	mreck
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Noun

breck m (plural brecks)

1. Synonym of breque
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Seguían luego en otro coche D. Juan Amarillo con el teniente cura y dos beneficiados de las cercanías, y después, en un breck, los demás convidados, que eran amigos venidos para tal solemnidad de la capital de la provincia.

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