braig
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]braig f (genitive singular braige, nominative plural braigeanna)
Declension
[edit]Declension of braig
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- braigeáil (“brag”, intransitive verb)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
braig | bhraig | mbraig |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bra (“good”) + -ig. It has arisen because the word bra is invariable and might therefore sound a bit off in some grammatical forms, for example the definite form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]braig (comparative braigare, superlative braigast)
- (childish, nonstandard, very colloquial) good
- Synonym: bra
Declension
[edit]Inflection of braig | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | braig | braigare | braigast |
Neuter singular | braigt | braigare | braigast |
Plural | braiga | braigare | braigast |
Masculine plural3 | braige | braigare | braigast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | braige | braigare | braigaste |
All | braiga | braigare | braigaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Categories:
- Irish terms borrowed from English
- Irish terms derived from English
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Swedish terms suffixed with -ig
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish adjectives
- Swedish childish terms
- Swedish nonstandard terms
- Swedish colloquialisms