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Irish

From Middle Irish blaí lín, brá lín (“linen sheet”), by dissimilation, but also influenced in form by brat (“cloth”) and assimilated to the suffix -ín. The first part blaí is from Old Norse blæja (“veil”), from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“cloth”).^[4]

(Cork) IPA^(key): /bˠɑɾʲˈlʲiːnʲ/ (corresponding to the alternative form bairlín)
(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɾˠɑːl̠ʲiːnʲ/ (corresponding to the alternative form bráillín)
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɾˠæl̠ʲinʲ/

braillín f (genitive singular braillíne, nominative plural braillíní)

Declension of braillín (second declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an bhraillín	na braillíní
genitive	na braillíne	na mbraillíní
dative	leis an mbraillín don bhraillín	leis na braillíní

Mutated forms of *braillín*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
braillín	bhraillín	mbraillín

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

^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “bairlín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 73; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “braitlín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 115; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “braitlinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 80
^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915), Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland [Contributions to the history of the Norwegian language in Ireland] (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, pages 37–38