bruinne

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brusnyos. Cognate to Welsh bryn (“hill”).

Noun

bruinne m (genitive bruinni)

1. breast, bosom

   Synonym: cích

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 144^c7

     .i. ind etaig bruinnidi .i. bís tar bruinniu ógae són.

     i.e. of the clothing for the breast, i.e. that is, which is wont to be over a maiden’s breasts.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bruinne	bruinneL	bruinniL
vocative	bruinni	bruinneL	bruinniu
accusative	bruinneN	bruinneL	bruinniuH
genitive	bruinniL	bruinneL	bruinneN
dative	bruinniuL	bruinnib	bruinnib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• bruinnide

Descendants

• Middle Irish: bruinne
  • Irish: broinne

Mutation

Mutation of bruinne

radical	lenition	nasalization
bruinne	bruinne pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbruinne

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language