brú

From Old Norse brú, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō, *brūwō.

• IPA^(key): /pruː/
• Rhymes: -uː

brú f (genitive singular brúar, nominative plural brýr)

1. bridge

• göngubrú (“footbridge”)

• búr

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠuː/

Related to bruíon and Middle Irish bruiden (“hostel, large banqueting hall”).

brú m (genitive singular brú, nominative plural brúnna)

1. hostel

• brú óige
• brúdóireacht

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brú m (genitive singular as substantive brú, genitive as verbal noun brúite, nominative plural brúnna)

1. verbal noun of brúigh
2. press, crush
3. pressure
4. bruise (mark on fruit)
5. dent

As verbal noun

As substantive

• brúghadh (obsolete)

• frithbhrú (“back-pressure”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brú

1. present subjunctive analytic of brúigh

• brúgha (obsolete)

From Old Irish brú, bruig, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis.

brú f (genitive singular brú, nominative plural brúnna)

1. brink, verge

   Ar bhrú éaga. ― On the verge of death.

2. bank (of river)

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 52
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *brusū.

brú f

1. belly, abdomen
2. breast
3. womb

• Middle Irish: broinn
  • Irish: broinn

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brú 1 ‘abdomen’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *mrogis.

brú ?

2. edge, brink
3. bank

The dative singular is also brú; no other forms are attested.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brú 3 ‘edge’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• brō — Old East Norse

from Proto-Germanic *brōwō, *brūwō.

brú f

1. bridge

• Icelandic: brú
• Faroese: brú
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bru
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bru (See there for further information)