branar
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Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish branar (“fallow land; act of tilling, preparing (land for new crop)”), from Proto-Celtic [Term?] (compare Welsh braenar (“fallow land”).
Noun[edit]
branar m (genitive singular branair)
- (agriculture) broken leas, fallow
Declension[edit]
Declension of branar
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- branar gan chur (“blank canvas”)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
branar | bhranar | mbranar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “branar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 branar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “branar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “branar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024