breá

See also: brea

Irish

Alternative forms

  • breagh, breágh, breaghdha (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish bregda.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

breá (genitive singular feminine breátha, plural breátha, comparative breátha or breácha)

  1. fine (of superior quality; sunny and not raining; acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory), excellent

Usage notes

Takes the adverbial construction go breá when used predicatively after a form of bí:

  • Tá an lá go breá.
    The day is fine.

Declension

Declension of breá
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative breá bhreá breátha;
bhreátha2
vocative bhreá breátha
genitive breátha breátha breá
dative breá;
bhreá1 		bhreá breátha;
bhreátha2
Comparative níos breátha
Superlative is breátha

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of breá
radical lenition eclipsis
breá bhreá mbreá

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bregda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 86, page 47
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 53
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 156, page 60
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 166, page 62

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

breá

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of brear

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