urbhruinne

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbruinne (“front, forefront; brink, edge”), from bruinne (“breast(s), bosom, chest; front; centre, surface; brink; limit”).

Noun

urbhruinne f (genitive singular urbhruinne, nominative plural urbhruinní)

1. (literary) breast, bosom; front, forefront; brink, edge

Declension

Declension of urbhruinne

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative urbhruinne urbhruinní Vocative a urbhruinne a urbhruinní Genitive urbhruinne urbhruinní Dative urbhruinne urbhruinní

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an urbhruinne na hurbhruinní Genitive na hurbhruinne na n-urbhruinní Dative leis an urbhruinne don urbhruinne leis na hurbhruinní

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urbhruinne	n-urbhruinne	hurbhruinne	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urbhruinne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airbruinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language