breabhsaire

Irish

Alternative forms

• brusaire

Etymology

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Noun

breabhsaire m (genitive singular breabhsaire, nominative plural breabhsairí)

1. spruce, sprightly person

Declension

Declension of breabhsaire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative breabhsaire breabhsairí vocative a bhreabhsaire a bhreabhsairí genitive breabhsaire breabhsairí dative breabhsaire breabhsairí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an breabhsaire na breabhsairí genitive an bhreabhsaire na mbreabhsairí dative leis an mbreabhsaire don bhreabhsaire leis na breabhsairí

Related terms

• breabhsaigh (“perk up”, verb)
• breabhsánta (“hale, sprightly”, adjective)
• breabhsántacht f (“sprightliness”)
• breabhsóg f (“sprightly woman”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of breabhsaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breabhsaire	bhreabhsaire	mbreabhsaire

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) “breabhsaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “breabhsaire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025