bratán

Old Irish

Etymology

From brat (“plunder”) +‎ -án, under the semantics that salmon would be a great catch to make.

Noun

bratán m

1. salmon

   Synonym: eó

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bratán	bratánL	bratáinL
Vocative	bratáin	bratánL	bratánuH
Accusative	bratánN	bratánL	bratánuH
Genitive	bratáinL	bratán	bratánN
Dative	bratánL	bratánaib	bratánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: bratán
  • Irish: bradán

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bratán	bratán pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbratán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bratán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language