bráge

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brāgants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbraː.ɣɘ]

Noun

bráge f (genitive brágat)

1. neck, throat, gullet

   Synonym: slucait

   • 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. 23^b10

     Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.

     By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.

     (literally, “do his advice”)

Inflection

Feminine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bráge	brágaitL	brágait
Vocative	bráge	brágaitL	bráigtea
Accusative	brágaitN	brágaitL	bráigtea
Genitive	brágat	brágatL	brágatN
Dative	brágaitL	bráigtib	bráigtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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

Mutation

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

Further reading

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