Breatain

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Bretain, borrowed from Latin Brittōnēs, nominative plural of Brittō.

Proper noun

An Bhreatain f (genitive na Breataine)

1. Britain

Declension

Declension of Breatain

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Breatain Vocative a Bhreatain Genitive Breataine Dative Breatain

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Bhreatain Genitive na Breataine Dative leis an mBreatain don Bhreatain

Related terms

• An Bhreatain Bheag f (“Wales”)
• An Bhreatain Mhór f (“Great Britain”)
• An Nua-Bhreatain f (“New Britain”)
• Breatimeacht m or f (“Brexit”)
• Breatnach (“Welsh”, adjective)
• Breatnach m (“a Welsh person”)
• Breatnais f (“the Welsh language”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Breatain	Bhreatain	mBreatain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Breatain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Bretain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Breatain”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “an Bhreatain”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024