breakle

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adjective

Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

OriginMiddle English brekil ← Old English *brycel ← Proto-Germanic *brukilaz →
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Meanings

adjectivebreakle (comparative more breakle, superlative most breakle)

comparative more breakle · superlative most breakle

  1. dialectalApt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

    At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone."

    1855, Ulster Archaeological Society, Ulster journal of archaeology

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*brukiz“breakable”
  2. Proto-Germanic*brukilaz
  3. Old English*brycel
  4. Middle Englishbrekil
  5. Englishbreakle

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz (“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle.

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APA

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MLA

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