bruinne
Old Irish
Noun
bruinne m (genitive bruinni)
- 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. 144c7
- .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:
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Derived terms
- bruinnide
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| bruinne | bruinne pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbruinne |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 258
- Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 113
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bruinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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