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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish bráthair, from Proto-Celtic *brātīr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”).
Noun
bràthair m (genitive singular bràthar, plural bràithrean)
- brother, male sibling
- Tha am bràthair aig Seumas aig am bùth. ― James' brother is at the shop.
Declension
Declension of bràthair (type Vb masculine noun)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| bràthair |
bhràthair
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “bràthair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bráthair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language