brionglán

Irish

Noun

brionglán m (genitive singular briongláin, nominative plural briongláin)

1. Alternative form of beangán (“young branch, shoot; scion, graft; heir, scion; prong; tree-creeper”)

Declension

Declension of brionglán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative brionglán briongláin vocative a bhriongláin a bhrionglána genitive briongláin brionglán dative brionglán briongláin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an brionglán na briongláin genitive an bhriongláin na mbrionglán dative leis an mbrionglán don bhrionglán leis na briongláin

Derived terms

• brionglánach (“branching; pronged”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of brionglán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
brionglán	bhrionglán	mbrionglán

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) “brionglán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN