bruith

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bruith (boiling, cooking), verbal noun of berbaid.[2]

Noun

bruith f (genitive singular bruite)

  1. verbal noun of bruith
Declension
Declension of bruith (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bruith
vocative a bhruith
genitive bruite
dative bruith
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhruith
genitive na bruite
dative leis an mbruith
don bhruith
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish bruithid (to boil, cook), denominal from Old Irish bruith (boiling, cooking) (see etymology 1)[3]

Verb

bruith (present analytic bruitheann, future analytic bruithfidh, verbal noun bruith, past participle bruite)

  1. (ambitransitive, cooking) to boil, cook by boiling
  2. (ambitransitive, cooking) to bake
  3. (intransitive) to burn (be or feel hot)
Conjugation
Synonyms
Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruith
radical lenition eclipsis
bruith bhruith mbruith

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brutis ((act of) boiling, cooking), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bruθʲ]

Noun

bruith f

  1. verbal noun of berbaid (to boil, melt)
  • bruth (heat, fervor)

Descendants

  • Irish: bruith (noun)
  • Manx: broie (noun)
  • Scottish Gaelic: bruich (noun)
  • Middle Irish: bruithid

Mutation

Mutation of bruith
radical lenition nasalization
bruith bruith
pronounced with /β-/
mbruith

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

Further reading