búachaill

See also: buachaill

Old Irish[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos (compare Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos)), from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, move around, sojourn”).

búachaill m

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	búachaill	búachaill^L	búachailli^H
Vocative	búachaill	búachaill^L	búachailli^H
Accusative	búachaill^N	búachaill^L	búachailli^H
Genitive	búachallo^H, búachalla^H	búachallo^H, búachalla^H	búachaille^N
Dative	búachaill^L	búachaillib	búachaillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
búachaill	búachaill pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbúachaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.