bretnas

See also: Bretnas

Old Irish

Noun

bretnas f

brooch, pin

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bretnas^L	bretnais^L	bretnasa^H
vocative	bretnas^L	bretnais^L	bretnasa^H
accusative	bretnais^N	bretnais^L	bretnasa^H
genitive	bretnaise^H	bretnas^L	bretnas^N
dative	bretnais^L	bretnasaib	bretnasaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *bretnas*
radical	lenition	nasalization
bretnas	bretnas pronounced with /βʲ-/	mbretnas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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