búachaill

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See also: buachaill

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

búachaill m

  1. cowherd
  2. herdsman

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative búachaill búachaillL búachailliH
Vocative búachaill búachaillL búachailliH
Accusative búachaillN búachaillL búachailliH
Genitive búachalloH, búachallaH búachalloH, búachallaH búachailleN
Dative búachaillL búachaillib búachaillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

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

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