brá gill
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]brá gill m (genitive singular brá ghill, nominative plural bránna gill)
- (historical) hostage held for ransom
- source of wealth
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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brá gill | bhrá gill | mbrá gill |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN