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brón
brón
Irish
Noun
brón m (genitive singular bróin)
- sorrow
- Tá brón orm ― I'm sorry (lit. "Sorrow is on me")
Declension
Declension of brón
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
Verb
brón (present analytic brónann, future analytic brónfaidh, verbal noun brónadh, past participle brónta)
Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
| singular | plural | relative | autonomous | ||||||
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| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||
| indicative | present | brónaim | brónann tú; brónair† |
brónann sé, sí | brónaimid | brónann sibh | brónann siad; brónaid† |
a bhrónann; a bhrónas / a mbrónann*; a mbrónas* |
bróntar |
| past | bhrón mé; bhrónas | bhrón tú; bhrónais | bhrón sé, sí | bhrónamar; bhrón muid | bhrón sibh; bhrónabhair | bhrón siad; bhrónadar | a bhrón / ar bhrón* |
brónadh | |
| past habitual | bhrónainn | bhróntá | bhrónadh sé, sí | bhrónaimis; bhrónadh muid | bhrónadh sibh | bhrónaidís; bhrónadh siad | a bhrónadh / ar bhrónadh* |
bhróntaí | |
| future | brónfaidh mé; brónfad |
brónfaidh tú; brónfair† |
brónfaidh sé, sí | brónfaimid; brónfaidh muid |
brónfaidh sibh | brónfaidh siad; brónfaid† |
a bhrónfaidh; a bhrónfas / a mbrónfaidh*; a mbrónfas* |
brónfar | |
| conditional | bhrónfainn | bhrónfá | bhrónfadh sé, sí | bhrónfaimis; bhrónfadh muid | bhrónfadh sibh | bhrónfaidís; bhrónfadh siad | a bhrónfadh / ar bhrónfadh* |
bhrónfaí | |
| subjunctive | present | go mbróna mé; go mbrónad† |
go mbróna tú; go mbrónair† |
go mbróna sé, sí | go mbrónaimid; go mbróna muid |
go mbróna sibh | go mbróna siad; go mbrónaid† |
— | go mbróntar |
| past | dá mbrónainn | dá mbróntá | dá mbrónadh sé, sí | dá mbrónaimis; dá mbrónadh muid |
dá mbrónadh sibh | dá mbrónaidís; dá mbrónadh siad |
— | dá mbróntaí | |
| imperative | brónaim | brón | brónadh sé, sí | brónaimis | brónaigí; brónaidh† |
brónaidís | — | bróntar | |
| verbal noun | brónadh | ||||||||
| past participle | brónta | ||||||||
* Indirect relative
† Dialect form
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| brón | bhrón | mbrón |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "brón" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “brón” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /broːn/
Noun
brón m (genitive bróin, no plural)
- sorrow, grief, lamentation, distress, burden
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5d25
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16b8
- "ni far mbrón si ..." glosses contristati
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129c6
- "in brón" glosses mestitudinem
Inflection
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- brónach (“sorrowful, grieving, sad”)
Descendants
- Irish: brón
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| brón | brón pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbrón |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “brón” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- Rudolf Thurneysen, A Grammar of Old Irish (Dublin, 1946), §62