brocais

Irish

Alternative forms

• broclas, broclais, bruclais

Etymology

From Middle Irish broclas (“brock-hole”), probably from brocc (“badger, brock”) (modern broc) + clas (“ditch, trench, furrow; pit”).

Noun

brocais f (genitive singular brocaise, nominative plural brocaisí)

1. den
2. pigsty (dirty, smelly, place)
3. dirty-faced person

Declension

Declension of brocais

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative brocais brocaisí Vocative a bhrocais a bhrocaisí Genitive brocaise brocaisí Dative brocais brocaisí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhrocais na brocaisí Genitive na brocaise na mbrocaisí Dative leis an mbrocais don bhrocais leis na brocaisí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brocais	bhrocais	mbrocais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brocais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “broclas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “brocais”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “brocais”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Portuguese

Verb

brocais

1. second-person plural present indicative of brocar