bráid

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See also: braid and Braid

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally the dative of brá (now specialized in the meaning “hostage, prisoner”), from Middle Irish brága, from Old Irish bráge,[2] from Proto-Celtic *brāgants.

Pronunciation

Noun

bráid f (genitive singular brád, nominative plural bráide)

  1. (obsolete except in fixed expressions) neck, throat
    Synonyms: muineál, scornach
  2. (cooking) target (neck and breast joints of lamb)

Declension

Declension of bráid (fifth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bráid bráide
vocative a bhráid a bhráide
genitive brád bráide
dative bráid bráide
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhráid na bráide
genitive na brád na mbráide
dative leis an mbráid
don bhráid 		leis na bráide

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bráid
radical lenition eclipsis
bráid bhráid mbráid

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

References

  1. ^ “bráid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 146, page 58

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