"breag" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Manx]

IPA: /breːɡ/ Forms: breagey [genitive, singular], breagyn [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], breag [mutation, mutation-radical], vreag [lenition, mutation], mreag [eclipsis, mutation]
Etymology: From Old Irish bréc (“lie, falsehood, deception”). Etymology templates: {{inh|gv|sga|bréc||lie, falsehood, deception}} Old Irish bréc (“lie, falsehood, deception”) Head templates: {{head|gv|noun|genitive singular|breagey|||||||plural|breagyn|||||cat2=|f1accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=p|f5request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn), {{gv-noun|f|breagyn|breagey}} breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn)
  1. lie Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-breag-gv-noun-yLGho-a8
  2. fallacy, sham Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-breag-gv-noun-v6iOddfi Categories (other): Manx entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Manx entries with incorrect language header: 10 72 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 20 60 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 59 21
  3. fiction, invention Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-breag-gv-noun-N6BDDC46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: breagagh (english: lying, false; imitation; extravagant; fictitious, spurious) [adjective], breagerey (english: liar, romancer, storyteller) [noun]

Noun [Old English]

IPA: /bræ͜ɑːɡ/, [bræ͜ɑːɣ]
Head templates: {{ang-noun|m|head=brēag}} brēag m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|brēag}}, {{ang-decl-noun|brēag|brēagas|brēag|brēagas|brēages|brēaga|brēage|brēagum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: brēag [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], brēag [nominative, singular], brēagas [nominative, plural], brēag [accusative, singular], brēagas [accusative, plural], brēages [genitive, singular], brēaga [genitive, plural], brēage [dative, singular], brēagum [dative, plural]
  1. alternative form of brǣw Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: brǣw
    Sense id: en-breag-ang-noun-DM8jgZCn Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "bréc",
      "bréc#Old_Irish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "gv",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "bréc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "lie, falsehood, deception"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bréc (“lie, falsehood, deception”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breagey",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breagyn",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vreag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mreag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gv",
        "10": "",
        "11": "plural",
        "12": "breagyn",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "breagey",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "p",
        "f5request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "breagyn",
        "3": "breagey"
      },
      "expansion": "breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn)",
      "name": "gv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Manx",
  "lang_code": "gv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "lying, false; imitation; extravagant; fictitious, spurious",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "translation": "lying, false; imitation; extravagant; fictitious, spurious",
      "word": "breagagh"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "liar, romancer, storyteller",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "translation": "liar, romancer, storyteller",
      "word": "breagerey"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "english": "A drunken heart will not tell a lie.",
          "text": "Cha ninshee cree er-mestey breag.",
          "translation": "A drunken heart will not tell a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He could stoop to a lie.",
          "text": "Cha row eh erskyn breag.",
          "translation": "He could stoop to a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I caught him out in a lie.",
          "text": "Hooar mee breag ass.",
          "translation": "I caught him out in a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I am lying.",
          "text": "Ta mee ginsh breag.",
          "translation": "I am lying.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lie"
      ],
      "id": "en-breag-gv-noun-yLGho-a8",
      "links": [
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "10 72 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Manx entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 60 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 59 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fallacy, sham"
      ],
      "id": "en-breag-gv-noun-v6iOddfi",
      "links": [
        [
          "fallacy",
          "fallacy"
        ],
        [
          "sham",
          "sham"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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        "fiction, invention"
      ],
      "id": "en-breag-gv-noun-N6BDDC46",
      "links": [
        [
          "fiction",
          "fiction"
        ],
        [
          "invention",
          "invention"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/breːɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breag"
}

{
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    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēag",
          "breag#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagas",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagas",
          "breagas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēag",
          "breag#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagas",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagas",
          "breagas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēages",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēages",
          "breages#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēaga",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēaga",
          "breaga#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēage",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēage",
          "breage#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagum",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagum",
          "breagum#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "head": "brēag"
      },
      "expansion": "brēag m",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brēag"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brēag",
        "2": "brēagas",
        "3": "brēag",
        "4": "brēagas",
        "5": "brēages",
        "6": "brēaga",
        "7": "brēage",
        "8": "brēagum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "brǣw"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative form of brǣw"
      ],
      "id": "en-breag-ang-noun-DM8jgZCn",
      "links": [
        [
          "brǣw",
          "bræw#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bræ͜ɑːɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[bræ͜ɑːɣ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breag"
}
{
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    "Manx feminine nouns",
    "Manx lemmas",
    "Manx nouns",
    "Manx terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Manx terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "bréc",
      "bréc#Old_Irish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gv",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "bréc",
        "4": "",
        "5": "lie, falsehood, deception"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish bréc (“lie, falsehood, deception”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bréc (“lie, falsehood, deception”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breagey",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breagyn",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vreag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mreag",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gv",
        "10": "",
        "11": "plural",
        "12": "breagyn",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "breagey",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "p",
        "f5request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "breagyn",
        "3": "breagey"
      },
      "expansion": "breag f (genitive singular breagey, plural breagyn)",
      "name": "gv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Manx",
  "lang_code": "gv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "lying, false; imitation; extravagant; fictitious, spurious",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "translation": "lying, false; imitation; extravagant; fictitious, spurious",
      "word": "breagagh"
    },
    {
      "english": "liar, romancer, storyteller",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "translation": "liar, romancer, storyteller",
      "word": "breagerey"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Manx terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "english": "A drunken heart will not tell a lie.",
          "text": "Cha ninshee cree er-mestey breag.",
          "translation": "A drunken heart will not tell a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He could stoop to a lie.",
          "text": "Cha row eh erskyn breag.",
          "translation": "He could stoop to a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I caught him out in a lie.",
          "text": "Hooar mee breag ass.",
          "translation": "I caught him out in a lie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I am lying.",
          "text": "Ta mee ginsh breag.",
          "translation": "I am lying.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "fallacy, sham"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fallacy",
          "fallacy"
        ],
        [
          "sham",
          "sham"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "fiction, invention"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fiction",
          "fiction"
        ],
        [
          "invention",
          "invention"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/breːɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breag"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēag",
          "breag#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagas",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagas",
          "breagas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēag",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēag",
          "breag#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagas",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagas",
          "breagas#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēages",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēages",
          "breages#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēaga",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēaga",
          "breaga#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēage",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēage",
          "breage#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brēagum",
      "links": [
        [
          "brēagum",
          "breagum#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "head": "brēag"
      },
      "expansion": "brēag m",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brēag"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "brēag",
        "2": "brēagas",
        "3": "brēag",
        "4": "brēagas",
        "5": "brēages",
        "6": "brēaga",
        "7": "brēage",
        "8": "brēagum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "brǣw"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative form of brǣw"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brǣw",
          "bræw#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bræ͜ɑːɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[bræ͜ɑːɣ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breag"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.