búistéir

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from bouc (“goat”).

Noun

búistéir m (genitive singular búistéara, nominative plural búistéirí)

  1. butcher
    Synonym: feolaire

Declension

Declension of búistéir (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative búistéir búistéirí
vocative a bhúistéir a bhúistéirí
genitive búistéara búistéirí
dative búistéir búistéirí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an búistéir na búistéirí
genitive an bhúistéara na mbúistéirí
dative leis an mbúistéir
don bhúistéir 		leis na búistéirí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of búistéir
radical lenition eclipsis
búistéir bhúistéir mbúistéir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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