breabhsaire

Irish

Alternative forms

• brusaire

Etymology

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Noun

breabhsaire m (genitive singular breabhsaire, nominative plural breabhsairí)

1. spruce, sprightly person

Declension

Declension of breabhsaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative breabhsaire breabhsairí Vocative a bhreabhsaire a bhreabhsairí Genitive breabhsaire breabhsairí Dative breabhsaire breabhsairí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an breabhsaire na breabhsairí Genitive an bhreabhsaire na mbreabhsairí Dative leis an mbreabhsaire don bhreabhsaire leis na breabhsairí

Related terms

• breabhsaigh (“perk up”, verb)
• breabhsánta (“hale, sprightly; spruce”, adjective)
• breabhsántacht f (“sprightliness in old age; spruceness”)
• breabhsóg f (“spruce, sprightly woman”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breabhsaire	bhreabhsaire	mbreabhsaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breabhsaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “breabhsaire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024