babaí

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Irish

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Etymology

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From dialectal English babby, babbie. [from 20th c.]

Replaced the now obsolete báibín, diminutive of báb, which is also from Middle English babe.

Noun

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babaí m (genitive singular babaí, nominative plural babaithe)

  1. baby (infant)
    Synonym: leanbh

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
babaí bhabaí mbabaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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