bruth

See also: bruþ and bruth-

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠɾˠʊ(h)/
  • (Kerry) IPA(key): /bˠɾˠɞh/, /bˠɾˠɯh/[1]
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /bˠɾˠuː/[2]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bruth,[3] from Proto-Celtic *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.[4]

Noun

bruth m (genitive singular brutha, nominative plural bruthanna)

  1. heat
  2. rash, eruption
  3. (textiles) nap, pile, covering
    Synonym: caitín
  4. surf
Declension
Declension of bruth (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bruth bruthanna
vocative a bhruth a bhruthanna
genitive brutha bruthanna
dative bruth bruthanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bruth na bruthanna
genitive an bhrutha na mbruthanna
dative leis an mbruth
don bhruth 		leis na bruthanna
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • bruithean
  • bruth faoi thír (“wrack”)
  • bruthach (“hot, fiery; napped, fluffy”, adjective)
  • bruthaire m (“hairy, unkempt, person”)
  • bruthán m (“(slight) rash”)

Etymology 2

Noun

bruth f (genitive singular bruite)

  1. alternative form of bruith

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruth
radical lenition eclipsis
bruth bhruth mbruth

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 81
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 51
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bruth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 81–82

Further reading

Old Irish

FWOTD – 27 February 2017

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bruθ]

Noun

bruth m

  1. raging, violent or boiling heat
  2. blaze, (fiery) glow

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative bruth bruthL brothae
vocative bruth bruthL brothu
accusative bruthN bruthL brothu
genitive brothoH, brothaH brotho, brotha brothaeN
dative bruthL brothaib brothaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: bruth

Mutation

Mutation of bruth
radical lenition nasalization
bruth bruth
pronounced with /β-/		 mbruth

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 81–82

Further reading

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