brága

See also: braga, Braga, bragă, and Bragă

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bráge (“neck”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants. The sense "captive" derives from the phrase gaibid ar brágait (“to take captive”, literally “to take by the neck”).

Noun

brága f (genitive brágat, nominative plural brágait)

Descendants

Irish: brá (“captive, hostage”), bráid (“neck, throat”)
Scottish Gaelic: bràigh (“captive, hostage”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
brága	brága pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbrága
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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