"breakle" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more breakle [comparative], most breakle [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz (“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|brekil}} Middle English brekil, {{der|en|ang|*brycel}} Old English *brycel, {{der|en|gem-pro|*brukilaz}} Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, {{der|en|gem-pro|*brukiz||breakable}} Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), {{suffix|en|break|le}} break + -le Head templates: {{en-adj}} breakle (comparative more breakle, superlative most breakle)
  1. (dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle. Tags: dialectal Related terms: breakly, brockly, brickle, bruckly

Alternative forms

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