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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish bró, from Old Irish brao, from Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bró f (genitive singular bró, nominative plural brónna)
- quern, millstone
Declension
Standard declension:
Archaic or dialectal declension:
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| bró
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bhró
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mbró
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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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Further reading
- “bró”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 89
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN