imreasan

controversy, Irish imreasán, Old Irish imbresan, altercatio, imbresnaim, I strive, Welsh ymryson, contention, dispute: *imbi-bres-, root bres of Middle Irish bressa, contentions, battles, Breton, Cornish bresel (from bris, break)? Windisch suggests for Gadelic *imm-fres-sennim (prep. imm or im and fris, frith), from Old Irish sennim, I drive, *svem-no-, allied to English swim.