lá brátha

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

brátha m

  1. judgment day
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29a28
      Ní taibre grád for nech causa a pectha ꝉ a chaíngníma: ar bíit alaili and ro·finnatar a pecthe resíu do·coí grád forru; alaili is íarum ro·finnatar. Berir dano fri láa brátha.
      You sg should not confer orders on anyone because of his sin or of his good deed: for there are some whose sins are found out before their ordination, others whose are found out afterwards. Reference is made, then, to the day of judgment.
      (literally, “…before orders go upon them…”)

Descendants

  • Irish: Lá an Bhrátha

Mutation

Mutation of lá brátha
radical lenition nasalization
lá brátha
also llá brátha after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
lá brátha
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged

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