bráge

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brāgants.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

bráge f (genitive brágat)

  1. neck, throat, gullet
    Synonym: slucait
    • 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. 23b10
      Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
      By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
      (literally, “do his advice”)

Inflection

Feminine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bráge brágaitL brágait
Vocative bráge brágaitL bráigtea
Accusative brágaitN brágaitL bráigtea
Genitive brágat brágatL brágatN
Dative brágaitL bráigtib bráigtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: brága
    • Irish: brá (“captive, hostage”), bráid (“neck, throat”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: bràigh (“captive, hostage”)

Mutation

Mutation of bráge
radical lenition nasalization
bráge bráge
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbráge

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brāgant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 72-73

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