bruinneall
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish bruinnell (“girl, maiden, damsel”).
Noun
[edit]bruinneall f (genitive singular bruinnille, nominative plural bruinnealla)
- maiden
- fair maiden
- Synonyms: ainnir, spéirbhean, spéirbhruinneall
- fair maiden
Declension
[edit]Declension of bruinneall
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- bológ na bruinnille (“bride-cake, bride's-cake”)
- spéirbhruinneall (“beautiful girl”)
Mutation
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bruinneall | bhruinneall | mbruinneall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruinneall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruinnell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bruinneall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bruinneall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024