breabhsóg

Irish

Alternative forms

• brabhsóg (Munster)

Etymology

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Noun

breabhsóg f (genitive singular breabhsóige, nominative plural breabhsóga)

1. spruce, sprightly woman

Declension

Declension of breabhsóg

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative breabhsóg breabhsóga Vocative a bhreabhsóg a bhreabhsóga Genitive breabhsóige breabhsóg Dative breabhsóg breabhsóga

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhreabhsóg na breabhsóga Genitive na breabhsóige na mbreabhsóg Dative leis an mbreabhsóg don bhreabhsóg leis na breabhsóga

Related terms

• breabhsaigh (“to perk up”)
• breabhsaire (“spruce, sprightly person”)
• breabhsánta (“hale, sprightly; spruce”)
• breabhsántacht (“sprightliness in old age; spruceness”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breabhsóg	bhreabhsóg	mbreabhsóg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breabhsóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN