brá

brá

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bregða

• braighe, bráighe (superseded)

From Middle Irish brága (“captive, prisoner; hostage”), from Old Irish bráge (“neck”), from Proto-Celtic *brāgants, from the practice of holding prisoners by restraining their necks. Doublet of bráid.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠaːj/^[1] (as if spelled bráigh)

brá m (genitive singular brá, nominative plural bránna)

1. captive, hostage

   Synonym: giall

• brá gill (“hostage held for ransom; source of wealth”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “braiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 brága”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *brēwō.

brá f (genitive brár, plural brár)

1. eyelash

   Synonym: augabrá

• augabrá

• Icelandic: brá
• Norwegian: brå
• ⇒ Swedish: baldersbrå

• “brå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of bregða