bréantas

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Irish

Alternative forms

bréanntas (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish bréntas (“rottenness, stink”).

Noun

bréantas m (genitive singular bréantais, nominative plural)

rottenness, stench
Synonym: tuth
filth
Synonym: otras

Declension

Declension of bréantas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms
case	singular
nominative	bréantas
vocative	a bhréantais
genitive	bréantais
dative	bréantas

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an bréantas
genitive	an bhréantais
dative	leis an mbréantas don bhréantas

Related terms

bréan (“to stink”)

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bréantas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bréntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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