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briosc

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish brisc, from Proto-Celtic *briskos.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic brisg.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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briosc (genitive singular masculine brisc, genitive singular feminine brisce, plural briosca, comparative brisce)

  1. brittle, fragile
    Synonym: aibrisc
  2. crisp, friable
  3. brisk (full of liveliness and activity)
    Synonyms: bríogúil, bríomhar
  4. flatulent

Declension

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Declension of briosc
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative briosc bhriosc briosca;
bhriosca2
vocative bhrisc briosca
genitive brisce briosca briosc
dative briosc;
bhriosc1
bhriosc;
bhrisc (archaic)
briosca;
bhriosca2
Comparative níos brisce
Superlative is brisce

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

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of briosc
radical lenition eclipsis
briosc bhriosc mbriosc

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brisko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 78

Further reading

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