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Icelandic
Verb
brá
- first/third-person singular past indicative active of bregða
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”), from Old Irish bráge (“neck”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants, from the practice of holding prisoners by restraining their necks. Doublet of bráid.
Pronunciation
Noun
brá m (genitive singular brá, nominative plural bránna)
- captive, hostage
- Synonym: giall
Declension
Derived terms
- brá gill (“hostage held for ransom; source of wealth”)
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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brá
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bhrá
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mbrá
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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
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *brēwō.
Noun
brá f (genitive brár, plural brár)
- eyelash
- Synonym: augabrá
Declension
Declension of brá (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
References
- “brå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
brá
- first/third-person singular past active indicative of bregða