bearna

See also: Bearna

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish bern,[1] berna, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic beàrn.

Pronunciation

Noun

bearna f (genitive singular bearna, nominative plural bearnaí)

  1. gap (opening made by breaking or parting, allowing passage or entrance, or implying a breach or defect)

Declension

Declension of bearna (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bearna bearnaí
vocative a bhearna a bhearnaí
genitive bearna bearnaí
dative bearna bearnaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhearna na bearnaí
genitive na bearna na mbearnaí
dative leis an mbearna
don bhearna 		leis na bearnaí

Derived terms

  • Bearna (place name)
  • bearna bhaoil (“gap of danger, breach (in battle)”)
  • bearna chustaim (“toll-bar”)
  • bearna ghiorria (“harelip, cleft lip”)
  • bearna mhíl (“harelip, cleft lip”)
  • bearnán (“small gap”)
  • craobh-bhearna (“branch gap”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bearna
radical lenition eclipsis
bearna bhearna mbearna

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bern”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “bearn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 27, page 16
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 40

Further reading

Old English

Noun

bearna

  1. genitive plural of bearn
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