brága

See also: braga, Braga, bragă, and Bragă

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bráge (“neck”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants. The sense “captive” derives from the phrase gaibid ar brágait (“to take captive”, literally “to take by the neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraːɣə/

Noun

brága f (genitive brágat, nominative plural brágait)

1. neck, throat, gullet
2. (by metonymy) body, person
3. captive, prisoner, hostage

Descendants

• Irish: brá (“captive, hostage”), bráid (“neck, throat”)
• Scottish Gaelic: bràigh (“captive, hostage”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
brága	brága pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbrága
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language