bunaosta
Irish
Etymology
From bunaois (“fairly advanced age”) + -ta (adjectival suffix) or bun- (“basic, primary, elementary; medium; fairly old”) + aosta (“aged, old”).
Adjective
bunaosta
- fairly old; (of person) middle-aged
Synonyms
- (fairly old): breacaosta, scothaosta
- (middle-aged): meánaosta
Related terms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- bunbhean f (“middle-aged woman”)
- bunfhear m (“middle-aged man”)
- cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bunaosta | bhunaosta | mbunaosta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bunaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN