buí

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See also: bui, Bui, BUI, bùi, Bùi, búi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish buide, from Proto-Celtic *bodyos.[2]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

  1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
  2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
    Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.
    Beauty is only skin deep.
    (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
  3. tan

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Derived terms

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Noun

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buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
  2. yellow fever

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Descendants

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  • Yola: buee

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buí bhuí mbuí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ buí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 369, page 125

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