braim

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• braidhm, bram, braoim, breim, brom

Etymology

From Middle Irish broimm (verbal noun of braigid from Proto-Celtic *bragyeti) from Proto-Celtic *braxsman from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg-. The modern verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾɤim/

Noun

braim m (genitive singular brama, plural bramannan)

1. fart

Declension

• In Uist, an alternate genitive plural form, bràm, is used.

Derived terms

• bramadaich
• bramag

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
braim	bhraim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “braim”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “broimm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language