brabachúil

Irish

Etymology

From brabach (“gain, profit; benefit, advantage; surplus”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

brabachúil (genitive singular masculine brabachúil, genitive singular feminine brabachúla, plural brabachúla, comparative brabachúla)

1. well-to-do

Declension

Declension of brabachúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	brabachúil	bhrabachúil	brabachúla; bhrabachúla²
Vocative	bhrabachúil		brabachúla
Genitive		brabachúla	brabachúla	brabachúil
Dative	brabachúil; bhrabachúil¹	bhrabachúil	brabachúla; bhrabachúla²
Comparative	níos brabachúla
Superlative	is brabachúla

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brabachúil	bhrabachúil	mbrabachúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brabachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN