bruinne

Old Irish[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *brusnyos. Cognate to Welsh bryn (“hill”).^[1]^[2]

bruinne m (genitive bruinni)

breast, bosom
Synonym: cích
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 144^c7
  .i. ind etaig bruinnidi .i. bís tar bruinniu ógae són.
  i.e. of the clothing for the breast, i.e. that is, which is wont to be over a maiden’s breasts.

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bruinne	bruinne^L	bruinni^L
Vocative	bruinni	bruinne^L	bruinniu
Accusative	bruinne^N	bruinne^L	bruinniu^H
Genitive	bruinni^L	bruinne^L	bruinne^N
Dative	bruinniu^L	bruinnib	bruinnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bruinne	bruinne pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbruinne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 258
^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 113