brao

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

brao f (genitive broon)

  1. quern, millstone
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 184b3
      Tuarcain do·fuaircitis inna grán la arsidi resiu arista brao.
      The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.
    • c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10a2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 45:
      broon glosses Latin molae

Declension

Not attested in the plural until Middle Irish

Feminine n-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative brao, bráu, broo — —
Vocative brao, bráu, broo — —
Accusative *broïnN — —
Genitive broon — —
Dative *broïnL, braoL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: bró

Mutation

Mutation of brao
radical lenition nasalization
brao brao
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbrao

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

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