brá

See also: BRA, bra, -bra, brà, and Brá

Icelandic

Verb

brá

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bregða

Irish

Alternative forms

• braighe, bráighe (superseded)

Etymology

From Middle Irish brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”), from Old Irish bráge (“neck”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants, from the practice of holding prisoners by restraining their necks. Doublet of bráid.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠaːj/ (as if spelled bráigh)

Noun

brá m (genitive singular brá, nominative plural bránna)

1. captive, hostage

   Synonym: giall

Declension

Declension of brá (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative brá bránna vocative a bhrá a bhránna genitive brá bránna dative brá bránna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an brá na bránna genitive an bhrá na mbránna dative leis an mbrá don bhrá leis na bránna

Derived terms

• brá gill (“hostage held for ransom; source of wealth”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of brá

radical	lenition	eclipsis
brá	bhrá	mbrá

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *brēwō.

Noun

brá f (genitive brár, plural brár)

1. eyelash

   Synonym: augabrá

Declension

  Declension of brá (strong ō-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	brá	bráin	brár	brárnar
accusative	brá	bráina	brár	brárnar
dative	brá	bráinni	brám	bránum
genitive	brár	brárinnar	brá	bránna

Related terms

• augabrá

Descendants

• Icelandic: brá
• Norwegian: brå
• ⇒ Swedish: baldersbrå

References

• “brå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

brá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of bregða