bruithean

Irish

Alternative forms

  • bruitheal, bruithin, bruithneadh[1][2]

Etymology

Perhaps a conflation of bruth (“heat”) and ruithean (“ray, beam of light”).[3]

Noun

bruithean f (genitive singular bruithne)

  1. heat

Declension

Declension of bruithean (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bruithean
vocative a bhruithean
genitive bruithne
dative bruithean
bruithin (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhruithean
genitive na bruithne
dative leis an mbruithean
leis an mbruithin (archaic, dialectal)
don bhruithean
don bhruithin (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruithean
radical lenition eclipsis
bruithean bhruithean mbruithean

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruithean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bruiṫneaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 93
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruithen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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