brosna

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See also: brošňa

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

brosna m (genitive singular brosna)

  1. decayed twigs, kindling
  2. bundle of sticks, faggot

Declension

Declension of brosna (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative brosna
vocative a bhrosna
genitive brosna
dative brosna
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an brosna
genitive an bhrosna
dative leis an mbrosna
don bhrosna

Mutation

Mutated forms of brosna
radical lenition eclipsis
brosna bhrosna mbrosna

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 90
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87

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