bailedhreach

Irish

Etymology

From baile (“town”) +‎ dreach (“facial appearance; face, surface”).

Noun

bailedhreach m (genitive singular bailedhreacha, nominative plural bailedhreacha)

1. townscape

Declension

Declension of bailedhreach

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bailedhreach bailedhreacha Vocative a bhailedhreach a bhailedhreacha Genitive bailedhreacha bailedhreach Dative bailedhreach bailedhreacha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bailedhreach na bailedhreacha Genitive an bhailedhreacha na mbailedhreach Dative leis an mbailedhreach don bhailedhreach leis na bailedhreacha

Related terms

• tírdhreach (“landscape”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bailedhreach	bhailedhreach	mbailedhreach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bailedhreach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bailedhreach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024