breacaosta

Irish

Etymology

From breacaois (“fairly advanced age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or breac- (“middling, partly”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

breacaosta

1. fairly old

Synonyms

• bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”)
• scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”)

Related terms

• 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

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

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