bosca

See also: Bosca and bošča

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Late Latin *bauscia or *baucia, of Germanic origin. Compare Italian bugia, Friulian bausie, Occitan bauzia, bauza, Old French boisie, Sardinian bigía, busia.

Noun

bosca f

1. lie, untruth

Related terms

• boscurd

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Irish

Alternative forms

• bocsa (Ulster)
• bosga (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɔsˠkə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʊsˠkə/, /ˈbˠɞsˠkə/

Noun

bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)

1. box (container)
2. box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood

Declension

Declension of bosca

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bosca boscaí Vocative a bhosca a bhoscaí Genitive bosca boscaí Dative bosca boscaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bosca na boscaí Genitive an bhosca na mboscaí Dative leis an mbosca don bhosca leis na boscaí

Derived terms

• bosca abhlainne
• bosca acastóra
• bosca airgid
• bosca ceoil
• bosca cipíní
• bosca compáis
• bosca éistigh
• bosca faoistine
• bosca guail
• bosca litreacha
• bosca luatha
• bosca muinchille
• bosca poist
• bosca ríomhphoist
• bosca seod
• bosca snaoise
• bosca stuála
• crann bosca
• fál bosca
• giocsaí i mbosca
• taebhosca

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bosca	bhosca	mbosca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bosca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bosca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
• “bosca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024