FromMiddle Irishbró, fromOld Irishbrao, fromProto-Celtic*brawū(“millstone”), fromProto-Indo-European*gʷréh₂wō(“heavy stone”), from*gʷréh₂us(“heavy”).
bró f (genitive singularbró,nominative pluralbrónna)
- quern,millstone
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Archaic or dialectal declension:
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- “bró”, inHistorical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bró”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bró”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page89
- Finck, F. N. (1899)Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page50
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bró”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
