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*brenaid

2623.
Wagner (H.): Old Irish -bria, subunctive of bronnaid ‘injures, damages, spoils, breaks’.
In ZCP 39 (1982), pp. 83–85.
Argues that OIr. -bria (GOI §610) is the ā-subjunctive of an old *brenaid < CC *brinati (cf. Skt. bhrı̄ṇāti ‘cuts up, crushes’).
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2975.
Campanile (Enrico): Note sur vieil-irlandais bronnaid (une nouvelle concordance lexicale entre celtique et indo-iranien).
In ÉtC 19 (1982), pp. 151–154.
Argues that OIr. -bria (subjunctive to bronnaid) is a suppletive form connected to unattested *brenaid, which can be reconstructed with the aid of Indo-Iranian from a PIE nasal present *bhri-n-eH-ti.
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