Breta

See also: bretã and Břeťa

Middle Irish

Etymology

Back-formation from Britain (“Britons”).

Proper noun

Breta f

1. Britain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Breta	Breta pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mBreta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Bretain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language