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See also: braid
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally the dative of brá (now specialized in the meaning “hostage, prisoner”), from Middle Irish brága, from Old Irish bráge, from Proto-Celtic *brāgants.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bráid f (genitive singular brád, nominative plural bráide)
- (obsolete except in fixed expressions) neck, throat
- (cooking) target (neck and breast joints of lamb)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bráid
Derived terms
[edit]- bráisléad brád (“necklace”)
- branra brád (“collarbone, clavicle”)
- brat brád (“neckerchief”)
- cait bhrád (“scrofula”)
- ciarsúr brád (“neckerchief”)
- dealbh bhrád (“bust”)
- easpa bhrád (“scrofula”)
- faoi bhráid (“before”)
- gad brád (“scrofula”)
- iall bhrád (“martingale”)
- slabhra brád (“chain necklace”)
- thar bráid (“past”)
- úll na brád (“Adam's apple”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bráid | bhráid | mbráid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “bráid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bráġa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 79
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bráid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58
Categories:
- Irish doublets
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish terms with obsolete senses
- ga:Cooking
- Irish fifth-declension nouns
- ga:Body parts
- ga:Meats