breabhsach

Irish

Alternative forms

• brabhsach (Munster)

Adjective

breabhsach (genitive singular masculine breabhsaigh, genitive singular feminine breabhsaí, plural breabhsacha, comparative breabhsaí)

1. Synonym of breabhsánta (“hale; sprightly; spruce”)

Declension

Declension of breabhsach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	breabhsach	bhreabhsach	breabhsacha; bhreabhsacha2
vocative	bhreabhsaigh		breabhsacha
genitive		breabhsaí	breabhsacha	breabhsach
dative	breabhsach; bhreabhsach1	bhreabhsach; bhreabhsaigh (archaic)	breabhsacha; bhreabhsacha2
Comparative	níos breabhsaí
Superlative	is breabhsaí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of breabhsach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breabhsach	bhreabhsach	mbreabhsach

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