briugu
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *brigūts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥ǵʰwōts, derived from the root *bʰerǵʰ- (“high, lofty”).[1]
Noun[edit]
briugu m (genitive briugad)
- hostel owner
Inflection[edit]
| Masculine t-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | briugu | briugaidL, briugu | briugaid |
| Vocative | briugu | briugaidL, briugu | briugada |
| Accusative | briugaidN | briugaidL, briugu | briugada |
| Genitive | briugad | briugad | briugadN |
| Dative | briugaidL | briugadaib | briugadaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| briugu | briugu pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbriugu |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- ^ Stifter, David (2011) “Lack of syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich vowel developments in Olr. consonant-stem nouns: animacy rearing its head in morphology?”, in Thomas Krisch, Thomas Lindner, editors, Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 561
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “briugu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language