bricyll

Welsh

Alternative forms
  • pricyll
Bricyll

Etymology

Alteration through aphesis and replacement of the final consonant of now obsolete English abrecock, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bricyll f (collective, singulative bricyllen)

  1. apricots

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bricyll fricyll mricyll unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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