bruinne

bruinne

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brusnyos, a derivative of *brusū (“belly”, literally “swelling”). Cognate to Welsh bryn (“hill”).[1][2]

Noun

bruinne m (genitive bruinni)

1. breast, bosom
   • 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. 144^c7

     .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.

   Synonym: cích

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
  • Irish: broinne

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bruinne	bruinne pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbruinne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 113

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bruinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language