bruiden
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bruiden
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Etymology edit
Said to be from the root of bruidheann (“quarrel, conversation”), because the hostel looked like the mouth of a man quarreling; however, it could instead be from bruthen (“broth”), a borrowing from Old English bryþen.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bruiden f (genitive bruidne)
- hostel
- banqueting hall
- c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
- Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chucisium isin mbruidin. Is í sein int ṡeised bruiden ro·boi i nHerind in tan sin: i. bruden Daderga i crich Cualand, ocus bruden Ḟorgaill Manaich, ocus bruden Mic Dareo i mBrefni, ocus bruden Dachoca i n‑iarthor Mide ocus bruden Blai briuga i nUltaib. Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda tréthi […]
- They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall. That is one of the six halls that were in Ireland at that time: the hall of Daderga in the area of Cualu, and the hall of Forgall Manach, and the hall of Mac Dareo in Brefne, and the hall of Dachoca in the west of Meath, and the hall of Blai the landowner in Ulster. Seven doors in the hall and seven passages through it […]
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- Irish: bruíon
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
bruiden | bruiden pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbruiden |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bruiden”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ O'Connor, R. (2013). The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, p. 125