bráge

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brāgants.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈbraː.ɣɘ]

Noun

bráge f (genitive brágat)

neck, throat, gullet
Synonym: slucait
- 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. 23^b10
  Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
  By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
  (literally, “do his advice”)

Inflection

Feminine nt-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bráge	brágait^L	brágait
vocative	bráge	brágait^L	bráigtea
accusative	brágait^N	brágait^L	bráigtea
genitive	brágat	brágat^L	brágat^N
dative	brágait^L	bráigtib	bráigtib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: brága
- Irish: brá (“captive, hostage”), bráid (“neck, throat”)
- Scottish Gaelic: bràigh (“captive, hostage”)

Mutation

Mutation of *bráge*
radical	lenition	nasalization
bráge	bráge pronounced with /β-/	mbráge

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

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brāgant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 72-73

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language