bricyll

Welsh

Bricyll

Alternative forms

• pricyll

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbrɪkɨ̞ɬ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbrɪkɪɬ/

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.