Breatain Mhór

Irish

Proper noun

An Bhreatain Mhór f (genitive na Breataine Móire)

  1. Great Britain (a large island (sometimes also including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Western Europe, made up of England, Scotland, and Wales)
  2. (loosely) Great Britain (the United Kingdom, a kingdom and country in Northern Europe including the island of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland)
  • An Bhreatain Bheag (“Wales”, literally “Little Britain”)
  • Briotanach (“British”, adjective)
  • Briotanach m (“a British person”)
  • Rí na Breataine Móire m (“His Britannic Majesty”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Breatain Mhór
radical lenition eclipsis
Breatain Mhór Bhreatain Mhór mBreatain Mhór

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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