Breta

See also: bretã and Břeťa

Middle Irish

Etymology

Back-formation of Britain (“Britons”).

Proper noun

Breta f

1. Britain

Inflection

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Mutation

Mutation of Breta

radical	lenition	nasalization
Breta	Breta pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mBreta

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Bretain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language