braighdeanas
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish bráigdenas (“hostageship, captivity”), from brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”) (compare modern brá).
Noun[edit]
braighdeanas m (genitive singular braighdeanais)
Declension[edit]
Declension of braighdeanas
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- braighdeanas aonair (“solitary confinement”)
- braighdeanas baile (“house arrest”)
Related terms[edit]
- braighdeanach m (“captive, prisoner”)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
braighdeanas | bhraighdeanas | mbraighdeanas |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braighdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bráigdenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “braighdeanas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “braighdeanas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024