brollach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish brollach (“breast, bosom, chest”). Related to Old Irish bruinne (“breast”) and brú (“belly, womb”).

Pronunciation

Noun

brollach m (genitive singular brollaigh, nominative plural brollaigh)

  1. breast, bosom
    Synonyms: broinne, ucht
  2. preface
    Synonym: réamhrá

Declension

Declension of brollach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative brollach brollaigh
vocative a bhrollaigh a bhrollacha
genitive brollaigh brollach
dative brollach brollaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an brollach na brollaigh
genitive an bhrollaigh na mbrollach
dative leis an mbrollach
don bhrollach 		leis na brollaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of brollach
radical lenition eclipsis
brollach bhrollach mbrollach

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 163, page 82
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 9, page 7

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