bràth

I.

brà, bràth

a quern, Irish bró, g. brón, Early Irish bró, g. broon, mill-stone, *brevon-, *bravon-; Sanskrit grâvan-; Lithuanian gìrnos; English quern.

II.

judgement, gu bràth, for ever (pron. gu bràch) "till Judgment", so Irish, Old Irish bráth, judgment, Welsh brawd, Middle Breton breut, Gaulish bratu-, *brâtu-; *brâ, *bera, judge, decide, from Indo-European bher, in the sense of "say", as in abair. The Irish barn, judge, and Welsh barn, judgment, are hence, and may be compared to Greek $$Gfrc/n, $$Gfrc/nes, soul, phrenology. Hence also breath, or breith *br$$.t-, q.v. The sense "conflagration" given in the Dict. is due to "Druidic" theorisings, and is imaginary.