bruasach
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish bruasach. By surface analysis, bruas + -ach.
Adjective edit
bruasach (genitive singular masculine bruasaigh, genitive singular feminine bruasaí, plural bruasacha, comparative bruasaí)
Declension edit
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 edit
- 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