buairt
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Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish buaidirt.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
buairt f (genitive singular buartha, nominative plural buarthaí)
- sorrow, vexation, devastation
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
- Ní fada nuair a bhí sí an méid sin buadhartha curtha aici di.
- It didn’t take her long to get over this amount of grief.
Declension[edit]
Declension of buairt
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Related terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| buairt | bhuairt | mbuairt |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- ^ “buairt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “búaidred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading[edit]
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buairt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN