brónach

See also: bronach, brònach, and Brónach

Irish

From Old Irish brónach. By surface analysis, brón (“sorrow”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

brónach (genitive singular masculine brónaigh, genitive singular feminine brónaí, plural brónacha, comparative brónaí)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutated forms of *brónach*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
brónach	bhrónach	mbrónach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From brón +‎ -ach.

brónach (comparative brónchu)

sad, sorrowful; grievous
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16^b18
  "ni brónach donintarrái" glosses refectus est spiritus eius
- 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. 86^d7
  bronchu glosses tristiora

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	brónach	brónach	brónach
Vocative	brónaig* brónach**	brónach
Accusative	brónach	brónaig
Genitive	brónaig	brónaige	brónaig
Dative	brónuch	brónaig	brónuch
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	brónaig	brónacha
Vocative	brónachu brónacha†
Accusative	brónachu brónacha†
Genitive	brónach
Dative	brónachaib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation of *brónach*
radical	lenition	nasalization
brónach	brónach pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbrónach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.