búcla

See also: bucla and buclă

Irish

Alternative forms

• bucla

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bucle, from Old French bocle (“buckle”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).

Noun

búcla m (genitive singular búcla, nominative plural búclaí)

1. buckle
2. ringlet (of hair)

Declension

Declension of búcla

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative búcla búclaí Vocative a bhúcla a bhúclaí Genitive búcla búclaí Dative búcla búclaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an búcla na búclaí Genitive an bhúcla na mbúclaí Dative leis an mbúcla don bhúcla leis na búclaí

Derived terms

• teanga an bhúcla (“tongue of a belt”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
búcla	bhúcla	mbúcla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.