bréantas
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- bréanntas (superseded)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
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Related terms
- bréan (“to stink”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bréantas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bréntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language