Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish burbacht, buirbecht.
Noun
borbacht f (genitive singular borbachta)
- synonym of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)
Declension
Declension of borbacht (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of borbacht
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lenition
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eclipsis
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bhorbacht
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mborbacht
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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) “borba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “burbacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language