breallaireacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• breallaí, brealláil, breillireacht, breilsce, breilscireacht, briolláil, spreallaireacht

Etymology

From breallaire +‎ -acht.

Noun

breallaireacht f (genitive singular breallaireachta, nominative plural)

1. silly talk, nonsense

Declension

Declension of breallaireacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative breallaireacht Vocative a bhreallaireacht Genitive breallaireachta Dative breallaireacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an bhreallaireacht Genitive na breallaireachta Dative leis an mbreallaireacht don bhreallaireacht

Related terms

• breall (“blunderer, fool”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breallaireacht	bhreallaireacht	mbreallaireacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “breallaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breallaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “breallaireacht” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.