224.
Mac Eoin
(Gearóid): Old Irish
briugu
‘hospitaller’ and connected words.
In
Celtica 23
(1999), pp. 169–173.
Derives Old Irish
briugu
from *
b
h
r̥g
h
- ‘high, etc.' + perfect active suffix *-
u̯ō̆t
-, meaning ‘having surpassed’, ‘one who has surpassed’.
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D 1.3 Etymology (Individual)
I 1.1 Society: Law, institutions: General and various
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briugu