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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
Possibly cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *warnás (“raven”). In view of the formal difficulty that a change of *wr- to *br- would be irregular in Celtic, Matasović considers it more likely that this is a loanword from an unknown (substrate?) source.
Noun
*branos m[1]
- crow, raven
Inflection
Masculine o-stem
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*branos
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*branou
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*branoi
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| vocative
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*brane
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*branou
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*branoi
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| accusative
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*branom
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*branou
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*branons
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| genitive
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*branī
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*branous
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*branom
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| dative
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*branūi
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*branobom
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*branobos
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| locative
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*branei
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*?
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*?
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| instrumental
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*branū
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*branobim
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*branūis
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Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73/74
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bran”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
