Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *bragyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (to smell).[1]

Verb

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braigid (verbal noun broimm)

  1. (hapax) to fart, flatulate

Inflection

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Being a hapax legomenon, the inflection of this verb is not directly attested and can only be inferred from descendants and etymology. The St. Gall Priscian Glosses database tentatively classifies this verb as A II;[2] however the reduplicated perfect form ro·bebraig attested in a Middle Irish section of the Book of Fermoy virtually guarantees that this verb was in fact a strong verb. Matasović's etymology assumes that the verb is B II.

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: braigid

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brag-(y)o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73
  2. ^ Bernhard Bauer, Rijcklof Hofman, Pádraic Moran, St Gall Priscian Glosses, version 2.0 (2017), accessed 4 December 2020

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