briotal

briot, briotal

chit-chat, Irish ++briot, chatter, briotach, a stammerer: br$$.t-t-, br$$.-t, root bar, ber, as in Latin barbarus, Greek $$Gbárbaros, berberízu, I stammer. The reference of briot to the name Breatnaich or Briotons as foreigners and stammerers is scarcely happy.