bruth

See also: bruþ and bruth-

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bˠɾˠʊ(h)/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bruth m (genitive singular brutha, nominative plural bruthanna)

  1. heat
  2. rash, eruption
  3. (textiles) nap, pile, covering
  4. surf
Declension
Declension of bruth

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bruth bruthanna
Vocative a bhruth a bhruthanna
Genitive brutha bruthanna
Dative bruth bruthanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bruth na bruthanna
Genitive an bhrutha na mbruthanna
Dative leis an mbruth

don bhruth

 leis na bruthanna
Alternative forms
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • bruthach (“hot, fiery; napped, fluffy”, adjective)
  • bruthaire m (“hairy, unkempt, person”)
  • bruthán m (“(slight) rash”)
  • bruth faoi thír (“wrack”)

Etymology 2

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of bruith

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bruth bhruth mbruth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "bruth" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 bruth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

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
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
bruth bruth
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/		 mbruth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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
  • “1 bruth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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