breth

== Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== breth alternative form of bredthe === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== breth alternative form of breeth == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === brith === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *britis. The declension switched from i-stem to ā-stem by analogy with bert (“bundle”), which is the foundation of the verbal nouns of all derivatives of beirid. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʲɾʲeθ/ === Noun === breth f (genitive brithe, nominative plural bretha) verbal noun of beirid: carrying, bearing judgement reference [with fri ‘to’] ==== Inflection ==== Etymologically this should be an i-stem with nominative singular brith. This alternative nominative singular is known to exist, but only an ā-stem inflection is attested. ==== Quotations ==== c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23c11 ==== Derived terms ==== brithem tairmbreth === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “breth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language