breib

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• brib, bribb

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin brevis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲebʲ/

Adjective

breib

1. short

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	breib	breib	breib
Vocative	breib
Accusative	breib	breib
Genitive	breib	breibe	breib
Dative	breib	breib	breib
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	breibi	breibi
Vocative	breibi
Accusative	breibi
Genitive	breib* breibe
Dative	breibib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Synonyms

• berr
• cummair
• garit
• gerr

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
breib	breib pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbreib
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), “breib”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language