bruasach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bruasach. By surface analysis, bruas +‎ -ach.

Adjective

bruasach (genitive singular masculine bruasaigh, genitive singular feminine bruasaí, plural bruasacha, comparative bruasaí)

1. thick-lipped

Declension

Declension of bruasach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	bruasach	bhruasach	bruasacha; bhruasacha2
vocative	bhruasaigh		bruasacha
genitive		bruasaí	bruasacha	bruasach
dative	bruasach; bhruasach1	bhruasach; bhruasaigh (archaic)	bruasacha; bhruasacha2
Comparative	níos bruasaí
Superlative	is bruasaí

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruasach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language