breo

breo

1. first-person singular present indicative of brear

From Old Irish breó.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɔː/

breo m (genitive singular breo, nominative plural breonna)

1. brand, torch
2. glow

• beo (nonstandard)

From Old Irish breóad, verbal noun of breóaid (“burns; enfeebles, weakens, injures, crushes”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɔːw/^[1]

breo m (genitive singular breo or breoite)

1. verbal noun of breoigh

Substantive

Verbal noun

• breochtaint, breodh, breodhadh (superseded)

• breo croí (“repining, heart-sickness”)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɔː/

breo

1. present subjunctive analytic of breoigh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breo	bhreo	mbreo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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breo

1. first-person singular present indicative of brear