brocais

Irish

Alternative forms

• broclas, broclais, bruclais

Etymology

From Middle Irish broclas (“brock-hole”), probably from brocc (“badger, brock”) (modern broc) + clas (“ditch, trench, furrow; pit”).

Noun

brocais f (genitive singular brocaise, nominative plural brocaisí)

1. den
2. pigsty (dirty, smelly, place)
3. dirty-faced person

Declension

Declension of brocais (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative brocais brocaisí vocative a bhrocais a bhrocaisí genitive brocaise brocaisí dative brocais brocaisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhrocais na brocaisí genitive na brocaise na mbrocaisí dative leis an mbrocais don bhrocais leis na brocaisí

Mutation

Mutated forms of brocais

radical	lenition	eclipsis
brocais	bhrocais	mbrocais

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brocais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “broclas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “brocais”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “brocais”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Portuguese

Verb

brocais

1. second-person plural present indicative of brocar