brònach

See also: bronach, brónach, and Brónach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brónach. By surface analysis, bròn (“grief, sadness, sorrow, mourning, affliction”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔːnəx/

Adjective

brònach (comparative brònaiche)

1. sad, miserable, dismal, dolorous, doleful, downcast, mournful, sorrowful

   Synonyms: dubhach, gruamach

Declension

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	brònach	bhrònach	brònach
Vocative	bhrònaich	bhrònach	brònach
Genitive	bhrònaich	bhrònaich/brònaiche	brònach
Dative	bhrònach	bhrònaich	brònach

Mutation

Mutation of brònach

radical	lenition
brònach	bhrònach

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brónach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language