branar

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish branar (“fallow land; act of tilling, preparing (land for new crop)”), from Proto-Celtic (compare Welsh braenar (“fallow land”). Perhaps ultimately related to *bragnos (“rotten”).[1]

Noun

branar m (genitive singular branair)

  1. (agriculture) broken leas, fallow

Declension

Declension of branar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative branar
vocative a bhranair
genitive branair
dative branar
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an branar
genitive an bhranair
dative leis an mbranar
don bhranar

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of branar
radical lenition eclipsis
branar bhranar mbranar

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

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “braenar”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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