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Irish
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)
- (agriculture) broken leas, fallow
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| branar
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bhranar
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mbranar
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “branar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 branar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “branar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “branar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- ^ 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