Breathnach

Irish

Adjective

Breathnach (genitive singular masculine Breathnaigh, genitive singular feminine Breathnaí, plural Breathnacha, not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welsh”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	Breathnach	Bhreathnach	Breathnacha; Bhreathnacha2
vocative	Bhreathnaigh		Breathnacha
genitive		Breathnaí	Breathnacha	Breathnach
dative	Breathnach; Bhreathnach1	Bhreathnach; Bhreathnaigh (archaic)	Breathnacha; Bhreathnacha2
Comparative	níos Breathnaí
Superlative	is Breathnaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

Breathnach m (genitive singular Breathnaigh, nominative plural Breathnaigh)

1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welshman”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Breathnach Breathnaigh vocative a Bhreathnaigh a Bhreathnacha genitive Breathnaigh Breathnach dative Breathnach Breathnaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Breathnach na Breathnaigh genitive an Bhreathnaigh na mBreathnach dative leis an mBreathnach don Bhreathnach leis na Breathnaigh

Noun

Breathnach f (genitive singular Breathnaí, nominative plural Breathnacha)

1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welshwoman”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Breathnach Breathnacha vocative a Bhreathnach a Bhreathnacha genitive Breathnaí Breathnach dative Breathnach Breathnacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Bhreathnach na Breathnacha genitive na Breathnaí na mBreathnach dative leis an mBreathnach don Bhreathnach leis na Breathnacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of Breathnach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Breathnach	Bhreathnach	mBreathnach

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Breathnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN