brèagha
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish bregda (“Bregian, fine”), from Brega (“Bregia, country around the Hill of Tara”), possibly from Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”). Cognate with Irish breá (archaic breagha, breaghdha) and Manx braew. Possibly related to brìgh (“sense; strength; significance”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
brèagha
Declension
First declension; forms of the positive degree:
| masculine | feminine | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | brèagha | bhrèagha | brèagha |
| genitive | bhrèagha | bhrèagha | brèagha |
| dative | bhrèagha | bhrèagha | brèagha |
| vocative | bhrèagha | bhrèagha | brèagha |
Mutation
| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| brèagha | bhrèagha |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “brèagha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bregda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “brig-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
- “Breagha” in Index to Keating, Geoffrey (1902) Patrick Dinneen, editor, The history of Ireland[2], London, pages 184–185
- note 11 in Ua Laoghaire, Peadar (December 1895) “Séadna”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge[3], volume 6, number 8, Dublin, page 134
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[4], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh