bratán

Old Irish

Etymology

Frombrat(“plunder”)+‎-án,under the semantics that salmon would be a great catch to make.

Noun

bratánm

1. salmon

   Synonym:eó

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bratán	bratánL	bratáinL
Vocative	bratáin	bratánL	bratánuH
Accusative	bratánN	bratánL	bratánuH
Genitive	bratáinL	bratán	bratánN
Dative	bratánL	bratánaib	bratánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H= triggers aspiration L= triggers lenition N= triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish:bratán
  • Irish:bradán

Mutation

Mutation ofbratán

radical	lenition	nasalization
bratán	bratán pronounced with/β(ʲ)-/	mbratán

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bratán”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language