breug

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bréc (“falsehood, lie; deception”).

Noun

breug f (genitive singular brèige, plural breugan)

  1. lie, falsehood (not truth)
    beul na brèige ― lying mouth

Derived terms

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
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