Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish búaidred m (“trouble, disturbance”), verbal noun of búaidrid (“to disturb, trouble”), from búaidre f (“confusion, disturbance”). By surface analysis, buair + -amh.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbˠuəɾʲu/, [ˈbˠui̯ɾʲu]
Noun
buaireamh m (genitive singular as substantive buairimh, genitive as verbal noun buartha)
- verbal noun of buair
- sorrow, vexation
Declension
Declension of buaireamh (first declension, no plural)
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(as verbal noun):
Declension of buaireamh (irregular, no plural)
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Synonyms
Mutation
Mutated forms of buaireamh
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lenition
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eclipsis
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bhuaireamh
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mbuaireamh
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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) “buaireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaidred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59
