bruinne

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brusnyos. Cognate to Welsh bryn (“hill”).[1][2]

Noun

bruinne m (genitive bruinni)

  1. breast, bosom
    Synonym: cích
    • 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. 144c7
      .i. ind etaig bruinnidi .i. bís tar bruinniu ógae són.
      i.e. of the clothing for the breast, i.e. that is, which is wont to be over a maiden’s breasts.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative bruinne bruinneL bruinniL
vocative bruinni bruinneL bruinniu
accusative bruinneN bruinneL bruinniuH
genitive bruinniL bruinneL bruinneN
dative bruinniuL bruinnib bruinnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • bruinnide

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: bruinne

Mutation

Mutation of bruinne
radical lenition nasalization
bruinne bruinne
pronounced with /β-/		 mbruinne

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

References

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 258
  2. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 113

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