breathnóir

breathnóir

Irish

Etymology 1

From breathnaigh +‎ -óir.

Noun

breathnóir m (genitive singular breathnóra, nominative plural breathnóirí)

1. observer, spectator, viewer

Declension

Declension of breathnóir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative breathnóir breathnóirí Vocative a bhreathnóir a bhreathnóirí Genitive breathnóra breathnóirí Dative breathnóir breathnóirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhreathnóir na breathnóirí Genitive na breathnóra na mbreathnóirí Dative leis an mbreathnóir don bhreathnóir leis na breathnóirí

Alternative forms

• breathnadóir
• breathnaitheoir

Derived terms

• breathnóireacht (“(act of) observing, looking around; observation”)

Verb

breathnóir

1. (literary, dialectal) second-person singular future of breathnaigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breathnóir	bhreathnóir	mbreathnóir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

External links

• "breathnóir" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.