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Word "flag" in Irish
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Keywords: bratach | brataí | bhratach | mbratach | bhratach | brataċ | bratacha | mbratach | bhratacha | bratacha | méirge | méirgi |
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Word " bratach "
- Word:
- bratach
- Script:
- Latin
- Etym. family:
- *brataq
- Grammatical gender:
- ♀ (feminine)
Remarks:
English Wikitionary entry about bratach
(See 1 wordform more identical to this.)
Irish, Manx and Scots Gaelic
share common word-initial mutation features.
Welsh, Cornish and Breton also
have them but they differ slightly in the details.
Anyhow, let’s take the Irish word for "flag"
in its base form, "bratach". Irish has 4 cases
(nominative, genitive, vocative, prepositional) and 2 numbers
(singular and plural), so here’s the breakdown of
"bratach" (a feminine noun in Irish) with
the definite article "an" (singular) and
"na" (plural):
There you have all the forms of "bratach" for Irish (even
"an" changes in the genitive case!). For more detail (or
confusion!) on Irish mutations, Wikipedia has a
detailed
article.
Brian Ellis, 26 Oct 2007
Word " brataí "
- Word:
- brataí
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- genitive
of "bratach"
Word " bhratach "
- Word:
- bhratach
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- non-paradigmatic nominative
of "bratach"
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Word " mbratach "
- Word:
- mbratach
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- propositional case declension
of "bratach"
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Word " bhratach "
- Word:
- bhratach
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- vocative
of "bratach"
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Word " ᚛ᚁᚏᚐᚈᚐᚊ᚜ "
- Word:
- ᚛ᚁᚏᚐᚈᚐᚊ᚜
- Transliteration:
- brataq
- Script:
- Ogham
- Variant:
- historical/residual form
of "bratach"
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Word " brataċ "
- Word:
- brataċ
- Script:
- Latin (Gaelic variant)
- Variant:
- historical/residual form
of "bratach"
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Word " bratacha "
- Word:
- bratacha
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- plural
of "bhratach"
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Word " mbratach "
- Word:
- mbratach
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- plural
of "brataí"
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Word " bhratacha "
- Word:
- bhratacha
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- plural
of "bhratach"
Word " bratacha "
- Word:
- bratacha
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- plural
of "mbratach"
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Word " méirge " (="standard")
- Word:
- méirge
- Script:
- Latin
- Etym. family:
- *merg-
- Meaning:
- standard
Word " méirgi "
- Word:
- méirgi
- Script:
- Latin
- Variant:
- plural
of "méirge"
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