breabhsach

Irish

Alternative forms

• brabhsach (Munster)

Adjective

breabhsach (genitive singular masculine breabhsaigh, genitive singular feminine breabhsaí, plural breabhsacha, comparative breabhsaí)

1. Synonym of breabhsánta (“hale; sprightly; spruce”)

Declension

Declension of breabhsach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	breabhsach	bhreabhsach	breabhsacha; bhreabhsacha²
Vocative	bhreabhsaigh		breabhsacha
Genitive		breabhsaí	breabhsacha	breabhsach
Dative	breabhsach; bhreabhsach¹	bhreabhsach; bhreabhsaigh (archaic)	breabhsacha; bhreabhsacha²
Comparative	níos breabhsaí
Superlative	is breabhsaí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breabhsach	bhreabhsach	mbreabhsach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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