breinn

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish brén (“putrid, stinking, rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg-.

Adjective

breinn

1. nasty, foul
2. rotten, rancid, putrid
3. smelly, fetid, malodorous

   T'eh breinn. ― It stinks.

4. loathsome, offensive
5. (film, literature, pornography) blue
6. pestilential

Mutation

Mutation of breinn

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breinn	vreinn	mreinn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.