bróen

Old Irish

Noun

bróen m

1. rain

   Synonym: flechud

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 89^c15

     .i. bieid rath somailse fora belru ⁊ áilgine amal bróin n-ailgen sniges hi cnai.

     There will be the grace of sweetness on his speech, and gentleness like gentle rain that drops into a fleece.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bróen	bróenL	broínL
vocative	broín	bróenL	bróenuH
accusative	bróenN	bróenL	bróenuH
genitive	broínL	bróen	bróenN
dative	bróenL	bróenaib	bróenaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: bráen

Further reading

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