breug
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish bréc (“falsehood, lie; deception”).
Noun
breug f (genitive singular brèige, plural breugan)
- lie, falsehood (not truth)
- beul na brèige ― lying mouth
Derived terms
- breugach
- breugadair, breugaiche, breugaire
- breugag
- deòir nam breugan
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “breug”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bréc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language