- briathar
- a word, so Irish and Old Irish *brêtrâ (Old Irish is fem.; Gaelic is mas., by analogy?), *brê, ablaut to brâ- of bràth, q.v. Bezzenberger would refer it to Old High German chrâjan, English crow.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.