brécaire

Middle Irish

Etymology

From bréc (“falsehood, lie; deception”) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

Noun

brécaire m

1. liar, deceiver
2. flatterer
3. hypocrite

Descendants

• Irish: bréagaire
• Manx: breagerey
• Scottish Gaelic: breugaire

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
brécaire	brécaire pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbrécaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brécaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language