breacaosta
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From breacaois (“fairly advanced age”) + -ta (adjectival suffix) or breac- (“middling, partly”) + aosta (“aged, old”).
Adjective[edit]
breacaosta
Synonyms[edit]
- bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”)
Related terms[edit]
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| breacaosta | bhreacaosta | mbreacaosta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breacaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN