breun

• brun (Jersey)

From Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

breun m

1. (Guernsey, Cotentin) brown

• brèan

From Old Irish brén (“putrid, stinking, rotten”).

breun (comparative brèine)

1. stinking, fetid, putrid
2. filthy, loathsome, nasty, corrupt
3. bold, indelicate (as a female)
4. of a turbulent, boisterous disposition
5. clumsy
6. beastly, brutal

breun (past bhreun, future breunaidh, verbal noun breunad, past participle breunte)

1. become corrupt
2. stink

breun f

1. stench
2. corruption

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “breun”, 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), “brén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language