See also: Brey

English

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Verb

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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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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brey f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

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

Mutation

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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.