bretnas

See also: Bretnas

Old Irish

Noun

bretnas f

1. brooch, pin

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bretnasL	bretnaisL	bretnasaH
Vocative	bretnasL	bretnaisL	bretnasaH
Accusative	bretnaisN	bretnaisL	bretnasaH
Genitive	bretnaiseH	bretnasL	bretnasN
Dative	bretnaisL	bretnasaib	bretnasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bretnas	bretnas pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbretnas
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), “bretnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language