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{{morpheme
|type_morpheme=lexical
|meaning='short' (?)
|language=Celtic
|analysis_phonemic=/{{p|b}}{{p|i}}{{p|rr}}/- and/or /{{p|b}}{{p|i}}{{p|r}}/-
|from_protocelt=*''birr''- 'short' (?)
|checklevel=0
}}
== Commentary ==
An onomastic element ''birr''- appears in Ogam {{bib|CIIC}} 131 {{tr|og|litubiri}} and in Gaulish in simplex names like ''birrus'', ''birrius'', ''birro'' ({{bib|TLG}}: 28, {{bib|Lambert 1994}}: 188, {{bib|DLG}}: 76, {{bib|Delamarre 2007}}: 213 et passim). They are thought to be connected with OIr. ''berr'', MW ''byrr'', OBret. ''berr'', Co. ''ber'' 'short', Gallo-Lat. ''birrus'' 'capelet with hood' ({{bib|FEW}} A–B: 376, {{bib|Thurneysen 1916}}: 82) < PC *''birro''- ({{bib|Matasović 2009}} s.v., {{bib|LEIA}}: B-42; no IE etymology).

Under this headword, Delamarre {{bib|DLG}}: 76 also lists names in ''birak''- (''biracos'', ''biracillus'', ''biracatus'', G-257 {{tr|gr|βιρακοτουτι[}}, ''biracideginus'', etc., {{bib|KGP}} I: 149, {{bib|Delamarre 2007}}: 42, 213); the association goes back to De Jubainville (in {{bib|AcS}} I: 423), who makes the connection via a variant (nomen) ''birius'' ({{bib|TLL}} s.v.), but this is uncertain considering consistent simple /{{p||r}}/ in the ''birak''-names as well as the suffix {{m||-āk-}} itself, which usually forms derivations from substantives (cf. {{bib|GPN}}: 311–313, {{bib|Lochner von Hüttenbach 1989}}: 31). Cf., however, {{bib|De Bernardo Stempel 2010}}: 79, who explains simple /r/ through degemination before stressed vowels (''bírrus'' vs. ''birákos'').
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