bruidheann

bruidheann, bruidhinn

talk, conversation, Irish bruíghinn, scolding speech, a brawl (also bruitheann), Old Irish fris-brudi, renuit, Welsh cyfrau, song, Old Breton co-brouol, verbialia, *mru, say; Sanskrit brû, bravati, says, Zend mrû, speak. O'Grady (S. Gad. xvi.) connects Early Irish brudin, hospitium; says meaning really is "quarrel". He gives Irish as bruidhen. Stokes Early Irish brudin, *brodìna, English board (Z. 33).