brath

• breth, breith, brethe, braith, berth, berthe (Scotland)

• Rhymes: -æθ

From Middle English brath, broth, braith, from Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrē-, *bʰerē- (“steam, vapour”), from *bʰer- (“to seethe, toss about, cook”). Cognate with Icelandic bráður (“quick, hasty, excited”), Swedish bråd (“hasty, sudden, urgent”), Danish bråd (“hasty, sudden”). Related to breath, brew.

brath (comparative brather or more brath, superlative brathest or most brath)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hasty; violent; fierce; strong.

• snell

• brathly

From Middle English brath, from Old Norse bráð (“haste”), from bráðr (“hasty”). See above.

brath (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal) Violence; fierceness; anger; fury; fit of rage.

• Barth, barth

From Old Irish brath, later form of mrath, mbrath (“act of betraying; treachery, betrayal; act of spying, reconnoitring; act of revealing; revelation, sign; act of depending (on); dependence, something depending (on)”), from Proto-Celtic *brātu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠa/

brath m (genitive singular as substantive braith, genitive as verbal noun braite)

1. verbal noun of braith
2. perception, feeling, detection
3. spying, betrayal
4. expectation, intention; dependence, reliance (with ar (“on”))

   Tá mé ag brath ort.

   I’m relying on you.

Verbal noun:

Substantive:

• "brath" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “brath”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• Mullen, Alex (2013): Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods
• Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

From Old Irish brath, later form of mrath, mbrath (“act of betraying; treachery, betrayal; act of spying, reconnoitring; act of revealing; revelation, sign; act of depending (on); dependence, something depending (on)”), from Proto-Celtic *brātu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

brath m (genitive singular bratha)

1. knowledge, notice, informing, information
2. treachery, advantage by unfair means, betraying, spying
3. treason, betrayal
4. intention, design
5. pursuit of information
6. expectation
7. opinion, idea, guess
8. mass, lump
9. lie
10. dependance

• aig sealbh tha brath
• gabh brath
• brath-foilleil

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “brath”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• Mullen, Alex (2013): Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods
• Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN