breallaireacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• breallaí, brealláil, breillireacht, breilsce, breilscireacht, briolláil, spreallaireacht

Etymology

From breallaire +‎ -acht.

Noun

breallaireacht f (genitive singular breallaireachta, nominative plural)

1. silly talk, nonsense

Declension

Declension of breallaireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative breallaireacht vocative a bhreallaireacht genitive breallaireachta dative breallaireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhreallaireacht genitive na breallaireachta dative leis an mbreallaireacht don bhreallaireacht

Related terms

• breall (“blunderer, fool”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of breallaireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
breallaireacht	bhreallaireacht	mbreallaireacht

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

Further reading

• “breallaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “breallaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “breallaireacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025