bráthair

From Old Irish bráthair (“brother”), from Proto-Celtic *brātīr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɾˠɑːhəɾʲ/

bráthair m (genitive singular bráthar, nominative plural bráithre)

1. (religion) brother (male fellow member of a religious community)
   1. friar
   2. kinsman (member of society)
2. monkfish, angelfish

• bráthair an dreoilín (“hedge-sparrow”)
• bráithre bána (“white-crested waves; grubs of bees”)

• bráithriúil (“brotherly”, adjective)
• bráithriúlacht m (“brotherliness”)
• deartháir m (“brother, male sibling”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bráthair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “bráthair” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 49
• Entries containing “bráthair” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Proto-Celtic *brātīr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraːθirʲ/

bráthair m (genitive bráthar, nominative plural bráithir)

1. brother, cousin, kinsman
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d8

     Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.

     He calls them brothers, lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 34^a4

     ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst

     so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ

• Irish: bráthair
• Manx: braar
• Scottish Gaelic: bràthair
• ⇒ Middle Irish: bráithremail

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