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breith

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish breth, verbal noun of beirid (to carry, bear, bring forth, judge).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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breith f (genitive singular breithe, nominative plural breitheanna)

  1. verbal noun of beir
  2. birth
  3. lay (of hens)
  4. bearing capacity
  5. bringing, taking
  6. seizing; catching, overtaking
  7. judgment, decision
  8. injunction

Declension

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Declension of breith (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative breith breitheanna
vocative a bhreith a bhreitheanna
genitive breithe breitheanna
dative breith breitheanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhreith na breitheanna
genitive na breithe na mbreitheanna
dative leis an mbreith
don bhreith
leis na breitheanna

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of breith
radical lenition eclipsis
breith bhreith mbreith

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

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish breth, verbal noun of beirid (to carry, bear, bring forth, judge).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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breith f (genitive singular breith, plural breithean)

  1. opinion
  2. assessment, judgment
  3. decision
  4. sentence, verdict

Derived terms

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Noun

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breith f (genitive singular breith, plural breithean)

  1. verbal noun of beir
  2. birth

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “breith”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “breth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language