Breatnais

See also: Breatannais

Irish

Alternative forms

• Breathnais

Etymology

From Old Irish Bretnas. By surface analysis, Breatain +‎ -is.

Proper noun

Breatnais f (genitive Breatnaise)

1. Welsh (language)

Declension

Declension of Breatnais (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Breatnais vocative a Bhreatnais genitive Breatnaise dative Breatnais forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Bhreatnais genitive na Breatnaise dative leis an mBreatnais don Bhreatnais

Related terms

• An Bhreatain Bheag f (“Wales”)
• Breatnach (“Welshman, Welshwoman”, noun)
• Breatnach (“Welsh”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of Breatnais

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Breatnais	Bhreatnais	mBreatnais

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) “Breatnais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Bretnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Breatnais”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Breatnais”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024