brao
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brao f (genitive broon)
- quern, millstone
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 184b3
- Tuarcain do·fuaircitis inna grán la arsidi resiu arista brao.
- The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.
- c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10a2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 45:
- broon glosses Latin molae
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 184b3
Declension
[edit]Not attested in the plural until Middle Irish
Feminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | brao, bráu, broo | — | — |
Vocative | brao, bráu, broo | — | — |
Accusative | *broïnN | — | — |
Genitive | broon | — | — |
Dative | *broïnL, braoL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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brao | brao pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mbrao |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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