breabhsóg

Irish

Alternative forms

• brabhsóg (Munster)

Etymology

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Noun

breabhsóg f (genitive singular breabhsóige, nominative plural breabhsóga)

1. spruce, sprightly woman

Declension

Declension of breabhsóg (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative breabhsóg breabhsóga vocative a bhreabhsóg a bhreabhsóga genitive breabhsóige breabhsóg dative breabhsóg breabhsóga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhreabhsóg na breabhsóga genitive na breabhsóige na mbreabhsóg dative leis an mbreabhsóg don bhreabhsóg leis na breabhsóga

Related terms

• breabhsaigh (“to perk up”)
• breabhsaire (“spruce, sprightly person”)
• breabhsánta (“hale, sprightly; spruce”)
• breabhsántacht (“sprightliness in old age; spruceness”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of breabhsóg

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breabhsóg	bhreabhsóg	mbreabhsóg

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) “breabhsóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN