briathrach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bríathrach (“having many words; wordy, verbose”), from bríathar. By surface analysis, briathar +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prʲiərəx/

Adjective

briathrach (genitive singular masculine briathraich)

1. talkative, loquacious
2. wordy, verbose

   Synonym: faclach

Derived terms

• briathrachas
• deas-bhriathrach
• dian-bhriathrach

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
briathrach	bhriathrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “briathrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 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