báisteach
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Irish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Heavy_Rain.jpg/220px-Heavy_Rain.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish baistech, from the root baiste ('baptism').
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]báisteach f (genitive singular báistí)
- verbal noun of báistigh
- rain (condensed water from a cloud); rainfall
Declension
[edit]Declension of báisteach
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
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[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
báisteach | bháisteach | mbáisteach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “báisteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “baistech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 24