brao
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- bráu, broo
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /braːu̯/
Noun
brao f (genitive broon)
- quern, millstone
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 184b3
- Tuarcain do·fuaircitis inna grán la arsidi resiu arista brao.
- The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.
- c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10a2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 45:
- broon glosses Latin molae
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 184b3
Declension
Not attested in the plural until Middle Irish
| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | brao, bráu, broo | — | — |
| Vocative | brao, bráu, broo | — | — |
| Accusative | *broïnN | — | — |
| Genitive | broon | — | — |
| Dative | *broïnL, braoL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: bró
- Irish: bró
- Scottish Gaelic: brà
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| brao | brao pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ | mbrao |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language