bruinne

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *brusnyos. Cognate to Welsh bryn (“hill”).^[1]^[2]

bruinne m (genitive bruinni)

breast, bosom
Synonym: cích
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 144^c7
  .i. ind etaig bruinnidi .i. bís tar bruinniu ógae són.
  i.e. of the clothing for the breast, i.e. that is, which is wont to be over a maiden’s breasts.

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bruinne	bruinne^L	bruinni^L
Vocative	bruinni	bruinne^L	bruinniu
Accusative	bruinne^N	bruinne^L	bruinniu^H
Genitive	bruinni^L	bruinne^L	bruinne^N
Dative	bruinniu^L	bruinnib	bruinnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *bruinne*
radical	lenition	nasalization
bruinne	bruinne pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbruinne

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

^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 258
^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 113