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Noun [Old Irish]

IPA: /ˈbɾaːu̯/
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Etymology templates: {{root|sga|ine-pro|*gʷreh₂-}}, {{inh|sga|cel-pro|*brawū|t=millstone}} Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), {{inh|sga|ine-pro|*gʷréh₂wō|t=heavy stone}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”) Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|||genitive|broon||||||||{{{3}}}||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|cat2=|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=|var=}} brao f (genitive broon), {{sga-noun|f|broon}} brao f (genitive broon) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-n-mf|acc_sg=*broïn|g=f|gen_sg=broon|n=s|nom_sg2=bráu|nom_sg3=broo}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=*broïn+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_du4=|acc_pl=braona+H|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=*broïn+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|acc_sg4=|acc_sg5=|class=n-f|dat_du=braonaib|dat_du2=|dat_du3=|dat_pl=braonaib|dat_pl2=|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=*broïn+L|dat_sg2=brao+L|dat_sg3=|dat_sg4=|dat_sg5=|dat_sg6=|gen_du=broon+L|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=broon+N|gen_pl2=|gen_pl3=|gen_sg=broon|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=s|nom_du=*broïn+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_du4=|nom_pl=*broïn|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=brao|nom_sg2=bráu|nom_sg3=broo|nom_sg4=|voc_du=*broïn+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_du4=|voc_pl=braona+H|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=brao|voc_sg2=bráu|voc_sg3=broo|voc_sg4=}}, {{sga-mutation}} Forms: broon [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], brao [nominative, singular], bráu [nominative, singular], broo [nominative, singular], - [dual, nominative], - [nominative, plural], brao [singular, vocative], bráu [singular, vocative], broo [singular, vocative], - [dual, vocative], - [plural, vocative], broïn [accusative, singular], - [accusative, dual], - [accusative, plural], broon [genitive, singular], - [dual, genitive], - [genitive, plural], broïn [dative, singular], brao [dative, singular], - [dative, dual], - [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], brao [mutation, mutation-radical], brao [lenition, mutation], mbrao [error-unrecognized-form, mutation], bráu [alternative], broo [alternative]
  1. quern, millstone Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-brao-sga-noun-0eNr0n4k Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Tools

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Irish",
          "lang_code": "ga",
          "word": "bró"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "lang_code": "gd",
          "word": "brà"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Irish",
      "lang_code": "mga",
      "word": "bró"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷreh₂-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*brawū",
        "t": "millstone"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷréh₂wō",
        "t": "heavy stone"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "broon",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Feminine n-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bráu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bráu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broïn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broon",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broïn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-mutation",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbrao",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bráu",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broo",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "{{{3}}}",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "broon",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "var": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      },
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    },
    {
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        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_du4": "",
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        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "*broïn+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
        "class": "n-f",
        "dat_du": "braonaib",
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        "dat_du3": "",
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        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
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        "dat_sg2": "brao+L",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
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        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
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        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "broon",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "s",
        "nom_du": "*broïn+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_du4": "",
        "nom_pl": "*broïn",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "brao",
        "nom_sg2": "bráu",
        "nom_sg3": "broo",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "*broïn+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "braona+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
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        "voc_sg2": "bráu",
        "voc_sg3": "broo",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
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    },
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      "args": {},
      "name": "sga-mutation"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Tools",
          "orig": "sga:Tools",
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              60
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.",
          "text": "Tuarcain do·fuaircitis inna grán la arsidi resiu arista brao.",
          "translation": "The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "of a mill",
          "ref": "c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10ᵃ2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 45",
          "text": "broon [translating molae]",
          "translation": "of a mill",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "quern, millstone"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "quern",
          "quern"
        ],
        [
          "millstone",
          "millstone"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɾaːu̯/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brao"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Irish",
          "lang_code": "ga",
          "word": "bró"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "lang_code": "gd",
          "word": "brà"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "mga",
      "word": "bró"
    }
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      },
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    },
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).",
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    {
      "form": "broon",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Feminine n-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bráu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bráu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broïn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
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    },
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broïn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "brao",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-",
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        "dative",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
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      ]
    },
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
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        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brao",
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        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
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        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "mutation"
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    },
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      "form": "bráu",
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      ]
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      "form": "broo",
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        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
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        "dat_du": "braonaib",
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        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
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        "gen_du3": "",
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        "gen_pl3": "",
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        "nom_du4": "",
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        "nom_sg3": "broo",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "*broïn+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "braona+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "brao",
        "voc_sg2": "bráu",
        "voc_sg3": "broo",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "sga-mutation"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old Irish feminine nouns",
        "Old Irish lemmas",
        "Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns",
        "Old Irish nouns",
        "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
        "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷreh₂-",
        "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
        "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old Irish terms with quotations",
        "Old Irish uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "sga:Tools"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              56,
              60
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.",
          "text": "Tuarcain do·fuaircitis inna grán la arsidi resiu arista brao.",
          "translation": "The grains used to be crushed by pounding by the ancients before a quern was invented.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "of a mill",
          "ref": "c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10ᵃ2, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 45",
          "text": "broon [translating molae]",
          "translation": "of a mill",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "quern, millstone"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quern",
          "quern"
        ],
        [
          "millstone",
          "millstone"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɾaːu̯/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brao"
}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
  "path": [
    "brao"
  ],
  "section": "Old Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "brao",
  "trace": ""
}

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