brobh

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

brobh m (genitive singular broibh, nominative plural broibh or brobhanna)

  1. blade (narrow leaf of a grass or grain)
    brobh luachra ― a (single) rush

Declension

Weak plural:

Declension of brobh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brobh broibh
Vocative a bhroibh a bhrobha
Genitive broibh brobh
Dative brobh broibh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brobh na broibh
Genitive an bhroibh na mbrobh
Dative leis an mbrobh

don bhrobh

 leis na broibh

Strong plural:

Declension of brobh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brobh brobhanna
Vocative a bhroibh a bhrobhanna
Genitive broibh brobhanna
Dative brobh brobhanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brobh na brobhanna
Genitive an bhroibh na mbrobhanna
Dative leis an mbrobh

don bhrobh

 leis na brobhanna

Derived terms
  • tiomsaíonn brobh beart is líontar sac le póiríní

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brobh bhrobh mbrobh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 16

Further reading
  • “brobh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “brobh”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 89
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “brobh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.