See also: bro, Bro, bro., -bro, and бро

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish bró, from Old Irish brao, from Proto-Celtic *brawū (millstone), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (heavy stone), from *gʷréh₂us (heavy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bró f (genitive singular bró, nominative plural brónna)

  1. quern, millstone

Declension

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Standard declension:

Archaic or dialectal declension:

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bró bhró mbró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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