breathnóir

Irish

Etymology 1

From breathnaigh +‎ -óir.

Noun

breathnóir m (genitive singular breathnóra, nominative plural breathnóirí)

1. observer, spectator, viewer

Declension

Declension of breathnóir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative breathnóir breathnóirí vocative a bhreathnóir a bhreathnóirí genitive breathnóra breathnóirí dative breathnóir breathnóirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhreathnóir na breathnóirí genitive na breathnóra na mbreathnóirí dative leis an mbreathnóir don bhreathnóir leis na breathnóirí

Alternative forms

• breathnadóir
• breathnaitheoir

Derived terms

• breathnóireacht (“(act of) observing, looking around; observation”)

Etymology 2

Verb

breathnóir

1. (literary, dialectal) second-person singular future of breathnaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of breathnóir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breathnóir	bhreathnóir	mbreathnóir

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