breacaosta

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Irish

Etymology

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

Adjective

breacaosta

  1. fairly old

Synonyms

  • 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

Mutated forms of breacaosta
radical lenition eclipsis
breacaosta bhreacaosta mbreacaosta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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