brèagha

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bregda (“Bregian, fine”), from Brega (“Bregia, country around the Hill of Tara”), possibly from Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”). Cognate with Irish breá (archaic breagha, breaghdha). Possibly related to brìgh (“sense; strength; significance”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɾʲi.ə/

Adjective

brèagha

fine, handsome, beautiful

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Declension of brèagha

	Masculine	Feminine	Plural
Nominative	brèagha	bhrèagha	brèagha
Genitive	bhrèagha	bhrèagha	brèagha
Dative	bhrèagha	bhrèagha	brèagha
Vocative	bhrèagha	bhrèagha	brèagha

Comparative/superlative: brèagha

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
brèagha	bhrèagha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “brèagha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bregda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Matasović, Ranko (2009) “brig-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
“Breagha” in Index to Keating, Geoffrey (1902) Patrick Dinneen, editor, The history of Ireland‎, London, pages 184–185
note 11 in Ua Laoghaire, Peadar (1895 December) “Séadna”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge‎, volume 6, number 8, Dublin, page 134

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