braighdeanas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bráigdenas (“hostageship, captivity”), from brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”) (compare modern brá).

Noun

braighdeanas m (genitive singular braighdeanais)

1. captivity, bondage, confinement, imprisonment
2. duress

Declension

Declension of braighdeanas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative braighdeanas Vocative a bhraighdeanais Genitive braighdeanais Dative braighdeanas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an braighdeanas Genitive an bhraighdeanais Dative leis an mbraighdeanas don bhraighdeanas

Derived terms

• braighdeanas aonair (“solitary confinement”)
• braighdeanas baile (“house arrest”)

 

Related terms

• braighdeanach m (“captive, prisoner”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
braighdeanas	bhraighdeanas	mbraighdeanas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braighdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bráigdenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “braighdeanas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “braighdeanas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024