broim

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish broimm (verbal noun of Old Irish braigid from Proto-Celtic *bragyeti) from Proto-Celtic *braxsman from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg-.[2] The modern verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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broim m (genitive singular broma, nominative plural bromanna)

  1. fart
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 56:
      rińə šē bŕīm mōr.
      [Rinne sé broim mór.]
      He let out a big fart.
      (literally, “He made a big fart.”)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Verb

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broim (present analytic bromann, future analytic bromfaidh, verbal noun bromadh, past participle bromtha)

  1. to fart

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
broim bhroim mbroim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ broim”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “broimm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 56
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 43

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