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bruith

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish bruithid (to boil, cook), newly derived from the verbal noun Old Irish bruith (boiling, cooking) to replace Old Irish berbaid.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bruith (present analytic bruitheann, future analytic bruithfidh, verbal noun bruith, past participle bruite)

  1. (ambitransitive, cooking) boil, cook by boiling
    Synonym: beirigh
  2. (ambitransitive, cooking) bake
    Synonym: beirigh
  3. (ambitransitive, cooking) burn

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Noun

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

  1. verbal noun of bruith
  2. boiling, cooking (by boiling)
  3. baking
  4. broiling, grilling
  5. burning, scorching
  6. (medicine) inflammation

Declension

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As substantive
Declension of bruith (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bruith
vocative a bhruith
genitive bruithe
dative bruith
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhruith
genitive na bruithe
dative leis an mbruith
don bhruith
As verbal noun
Declension of bruith (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bruith
vocative a bhruith
genitive bruite
dative bruith
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhruith
genitive na bruite
dative leis an mbruith
don bhruith

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of bruith
radical lenition eclipsis
bruith bhruith mbruith

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruithid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50

Further reading

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