breá

See also: brea

Irish

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɑː/^[2]^[3]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲeː/, [bʲɾʲɛə̯] (as if spelled bré)^[4]; /bʲɾʲiə/ (as if spelled bria)^[5]

breá (genitive singular feminine breátha, plural breátha, comparative breátha or breácha)

fine (of superior quality; sunny and not raining; acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory), excellent

Takes the adverbial construction go breá when used predicatively after a form of bí:

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

Mutated forms of *breá*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
breá	bhreá	mbreá

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bregda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 86, page 47
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 53
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 156, page 60
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 166, page 62

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