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368 Gaelic Society of Inverness.<br />

the nominative. Braighe appeai-s in the Dean of Lismore's MS.<br />

in the aspirated form vrai, and in the form hrae it has entered<br />

English. Tlio word is now indeclinable, but traces of the old flexion<br />

still survive. Iain Lorn, and the popular poets almost down to our<br />

own day, use brttyluul occasionally for "throat," "neck," "breast."<br />

"Thig an sop a m' bhraghad."<br />

Losgadh-hrclghad, "heartburn"— literally, "the burning of the<br />

tliroat;" and ramh-fjrd,ghad, "the bow oar," preserve the old caseending<br />

of the genitive. Brnighid is the hames of a horse's harness<br />

(in some districts the collar), and in a transferred sense a captive,<br />

i.e., he who wears the Waighid, with Waigluleanas (captivity).<br />

The d of this word is preserved in Braid-Alba ; and if I mistake<br />

not, in the Braid IHLs, near Edinburgh, i.e., "The Uplands."<br />

Teine (fire) a

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