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bruiteach, warm; from *bruth, heat; see bruthainn.

bruith, boil, cook, so Ir., E. Ir. bruith, cooking, *broti‑, from the root bru, I. E. bhru; Eng. broth (Teut. broþo‑, I. E. bhruto‑, and brew (I. E. bhreu); Lat. defrutum, must; Thrac. Gr. βρῦτον, beer.

brunsgal, rumbling noise; bronn + sgal? From brù, in any case.

brusg, a crumb, particle of food, Ir. bruscán, brusgar, broken ware, useless fragments, brus, refuse of corn: from *brus, short form of *brûs in brùth.

brutach, digging, the act of digging (N. H. according to H.S.D.): *brutto‑, *bhrud-to‑, root bhrud, break? See bronn.

brùth, bruise, pound, Ir. brúighim, E. Ir. brúim, *brûs, strike, graze, pound; Pre. Celt. bhreus; Ag. S. brýsan, bruise, Eng. bruise (influ­enced by Fr.); perhaps O. Slav. brŭsnąti, cor­rumpere, radere.

bruthach, a brae: *brut-acos, root bru, from bhru, brow; see bruach. Sc. brae is of a similar origin, founded on Norse brá, eyelid, brow (Murray).

bruthainn, sultriness, heat, Ir., O. Ir. bruth, fervour, W. brwd, hot, Br. brout, hot (fire), O. Br. brot: *brutu‑. For further root see bruith. Wider are Lat. ferveo, fervor, Eng. burn, etc.

bruthaist, brose; from early Sc., Eng. browes, Sc. brose; from the Fr., but allied to Eng. broth.

bu, was, Ir. budh, O. Ir. by: Proto-Gaelic *bu for a Celtic bu‑t; Gr. ἕφυ (υ long), aorist tense; Lat. fuit; Skr. ábhût, was; I. E. é‑bhû‑t. The root is bheu, bhu; Eng. be, etc. Both G. and Ir. aspirate, which shows the t of the 3rd sing. dis­appeared early.

buabhall, unicorn, buffalo, M. Ir. buabhall, W. bual; from Lat. bubalus, buffalo, gazelle, whence (būfalus) Eng. buffalo.

buabhall, a trumpet, Ir. bubhall, buadhbhall, M. Ir. buaball, W. bual, bugle; cf. M. Ir. buabhall, horn, W. bual, buffalo horn, M. Ir. corn buabhaill; whence the further force of “trumpet”.

buachaill, a herdsman, so Ir., O. Ir. bóchaill, buachaill, W. bugail, Cor., Br. bugel; Gr. βουκόλος, cowherd (Lat. bucolicus, Eng. bucolic, βου‑, cow, and ‑κολος, attendant, Lat. colo, cultivate.

buachar, cow-dung, Ir. buacar, buachar (Con.), Br. beuzel; for the stem before the suffix ‑ar, cf. W. buwch (*boukkâ), though bou-cor‑ or bouk-cor‑, "cow-offcast", may properly be the deri­vation for the Gadelic. See bó and, possibly, cuir. Cf. salchar.

buadhghallan, buaghallan, ragwort, Ir. buadhghallan, M. Ir. buath­bhallan, buath­fallan: “virtue bearing wort?” More probably it is buaf-bhallan, “toad-wort”, from buaf, toad,