boirbeacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• borbacht

Etymology

From Old Irish burbacht, buirbecht.

Noun

boirbeacht f (genitive singular boirbeachta)

1. Synonym of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)

Declension

Declension of buirbeacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative buirbeacht Vocative a bhuirbeacht Genitive buirbeachta Dative buirbeacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an bhuirbeacht Genitive na buirbeachta Dative leis an mbuirbeacht don bhuirbeacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
boirbeacht	bhoirbeacht	mboirbeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “boirbe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “burbacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language