Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish bruithid (to boil, cook), newly derived from the verbal noun Old Irish bruith (boiling, cooking) to replace Old Irish berbaid.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bruith (present analytic bruitheann, future analytic bruithfidh, verbal noun bruith, past participle bruite)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) boil, cook by boiling
    Synonym: beirigh
  2. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) bake
    Synonym: beirigh
  3. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) burn

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

bruith f (genitive singular as substantive bruithe, genitive as verbal noun bruite)

  1. verbal noun of bruith
  2. boiling, cooking (by boiling)
  3. baking
  4. broiling, grilling
  5. burning, scorching
  6. (medicine) inflammation

Declension edit

As substantive
As verbal noun

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bruith bhruith mbruith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50

Further reading edit