breugaire
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish brécaire (“liar, deceiver; flatterer; hypocrite”). By surface analysis, breug (“lie”) + -aire (agent noun suffix).
Noun
[edit]breugaire m (genitive singular breugaire, plural breugairean)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “breugaire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brécaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language