breá

See also: brea

Irish

Alternative forms
  • breagh, breágh, breaghdha (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish bregda.

Pronunciation
  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /bʲɾʲɑː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /bʲɾʲeː/, [bʲɾʲɛə̯][1] (as if spelled bré); /bʲɾʲiə/[2] (as if spelled bria)

Adjective

breá (genitive singular feminine breátha, plural breátha, comparative breátha or breácha)

  1. fine (of superior quality; sunny and not raining; acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory), excellent

Usage notes

Takes the adverbial construction go breá when used predicatively after a form of bí:

  • Tá an lá go breá. ― The day is fine.

Declension
Declension of breá
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative breá bhreá breátha;
bhreátha²
Vocative bhreá breátha
Genitive breátha breátha breá
Dative breá;
bhreá¹		 bhreá breátha;
bhreátha²
Comparative níos breátha
Superlative is breátha

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

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
breá bhreá mbreá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

breá

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of brear

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