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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From English bout, from Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”).
Noun
babhta m (genitive singular babhta, nominative plural babhtaí)
- bout
- spell, turn
- (sports) round
- time, occasion
- blow
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From English boot, from Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“advantage”), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).
Noun
babhta m (genitive singular babhta, nominative plural babhtaí)
- boot (something given to equalize an exchange)
- thing exchanged
- addition
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| babhta
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bhabhta
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mbabhta
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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