brèagha
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish bregda (“Bregian, fine”), from Brega (“Bregia, country around the Hill of Tara”), possibly from Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”). Cognate with Irish breá (archaic breagha, breaghdha). Possibly related to brìgh (“sense; strength; significance”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editbrèagha
Declension
editFirst declension; forms of the positive degree:
Declension of brèagha
Comparative/superlative: brèagha
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
brèagha | bhrèagha |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “brèagha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bregda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “brig-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
- “Breagha” in Index to Keating, Geoffrey (1902) Patrick Dinneen, editor, The history of Ireland[2], London, pages 184–185
- note 11 in Ua Laoghaire, Peadar (1895 December) “Séadna”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge[3], volume 6, number 8, Dublin, page 134
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap