braighdeanas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bráigdenas (“hostageship, captivity”), from brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”) (compare modern brá).

Noun

braighdeanas m (genitive singular braighdeanais)

1. captivity, bondage, confinement, imprisonment
2. duress

Declension

Declension of braighdeanas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative braighdeanas vocative a bhraighdeanais genitive braighdeanais dative braighdeanas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an braighdeanas genitive an bhraighdeanais dative leis an mbraighdeanas don bhraighdeanas

Derived terms

• braighdeanas aonair (“solitary confinement”)
• braighdeanas baile (“house arrest”)

 

Related terms

• braighdeanach m (“captive, prisoner”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of braighdeanas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
braighdeanas	bhraighdeanas	mbraighdeanas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braighdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bráigdenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “braighdeanas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “braighdeanas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024