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Irish
Etymology
Literally, “broken stick”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmˠædʲə ˈbʲɾʲɪʃtʲə/
Noun
maide briste m (genitive singular maide bhriste, nominative plural maidí briste)
- tongs
- Synonym: tlú
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maide, briste.
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| maide briste
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mhaide briste
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not applicable
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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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Further reading
- “maide briste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “maide”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 457
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maide briste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81