breacaosta

Irish

Etymology

From breacaois (“fairly advanced age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or breac- (“middling, partly”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

breacaosta

fairly old

Synonyms

bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”)
scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”)

Related terms

Terms related to breacaosta

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)

críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)

meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
breacaosta	bhreacaosta	mbreacaosta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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