Breton words — page 6

Bedouin

oar

dupe

lemon balm

very chatty woman

potbelly

collective bleating

potbellied

surname

see begiañ

mourning ribbon

chatterbox

see begivinañ

Bignan (place)

body fat

fat, adipose

collective bleating

blunder

see bec'hiet

sheep (child speech)

(adjective sense)

kelt salmon

see bekal

to peck at

to tinker

trinkets

to lose one's temper

shortsighted

rafter tail (carpentry)

priest

hieratic

watercress

watercress bed

abundant in watercress

roof boards

roof board

Belgium

bailiwick

to battle

see beller

bellicose

tail

yokel, slow-witted person

Bertrand

Belz

every day, normally

Belle-Isle-en-Terre

benedicite

cutting, pruning

Benin (a country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey)

any, some

any whatsoever

Bénodet

Benjamin

vetch

to put into a vat

chard

chard leaf

to drip

barberry

Berhet

drippage

to skewer

drainage, dripping

beryl

small stick

to crossbreed animals

Berlin

berlin (carriage)

mixed drink

front quarter of a bodice

velvet hatband braid

Berné

Bernardine (monk)

Veronica (holy image)

short

asthmatic

brevity

ephemeral

to lose one's head

inconstancy

scatterbrained, fickle

to flit about

brevity

brevity

scarcity, want, famine

needy, in difficulty

ephemeral

short life

Berry

to lengthen a garment

garment extension

Berrien

Berric

prognathous

concise expression

to be stingy

stingy

short in stature

mini-skirt

myopic

wine barrel

see bertim

flowing, fluid

fluidity

broth

to boil

boiling

fervor

hothead

bubbling, swirl

glimmer in the eye

boiling

to mock, to jeer

to entomb

vice-admiral

clumsy

slanted, oblique

irregular furrow

small side furrow

vice-consul

viscounty

viscounty

whitlow

having a cut tongue

bile

bilious

biliary

bilious

flat-bottomed boat

chard

forever

betony

simpleton, dunce

to stupefy

early-rising

morning serenade

flood, deluge

Budoc

m.

special

boxwood grove

boxwood grove

drowning woman

to be idle

drowning

Budic

live, having life

to live

invigorating

liveliness, enthusiasm

see bevenniñ

see bividigezh

viable

to be

been

seaweed harvest

seaweed-harvesting place

seaweed plant

adj.

stunned, dumbfounded

existence

birch tree

abundant in birches

birch grove

bindweed

Bible

librarian

nickname for the devil

bichon dog

jealous

see pidenn

v.t. to strike or hook with a boathook

youngest child of a family

see bidonad

beer

pr.n. Marianne

variegated

winkle

winkles Mollusca prosobranchia

man from Bigouden country

v.i. to poach

small, little

undercooked

see bikblog

coll. (botany) wild oats

see bigofek

v.t. to draw lots

coll. (botany) wild oats

A wide

v.t. to concrete

trap, snare

kind of beehive

Binic (place name)

see binnigañ

kind of beehive

blow, strike

to lift, hoist

tools (plural)

a few tools