branar

Irish

Alternative forms

• branra

Etymology

From Old Irish branar (“fallow land; act of tilling, preparing (land for new crop)”), from Proto-Celtic [Term?] (compare Welsh braenar (“fallow land”).

Noun

branar m (genitive singular branair)

1. (agriculture) broken leas, fallow

Declension

Declension of branar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative branar Vocative a bhranair Genitive branair Dative branar

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an branar Genitive an bhranair Dative leis an mbranar don bhranar

Derived terms

• branar gan chur (“blank canvas”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
branar	bhranar	mbranar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “branar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 branar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “branar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “branar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024