broinn
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish brú (“abdomen, belly; bowels, entrails; womb”), from Proto-Celtic *brusū.
Pronunciation
- (Galway) IPA(key): /bˠɾˠiːn̠ʲ/
Declension
As second-declension noun:
Declension of broinn
Second declension
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As fifth-declension noun:
Declension of broinn
Second declension
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- ball broinne (“birthmark”)
- Eoin Broinne (“John the beloved disciple”)
- galar broinne (“congenital disease”)
- go broinne an bhrátha (“to the brink of doom, till doomsday”)
- go broinne na breithe (“till doomsday”)
- i mbroinn loinge (“in the hold of a ship”)
- i mbroinn talún (“in the bowels of the earth”)
- le broinne báis (“on the verge of death”)
- tar as broinn (“come from the womb, be born”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| broinn | bhroinn | mbroinn |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 264
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “broinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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