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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish baccaige (“lameness”), from baccach.
Noun
bacaí f (genitive singular bacaí)
- lameness
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
bacaí
- inflection of bacach:
- genitive singular feminine
- comparative degree
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| bacaí
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bhacaí
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mbacaí
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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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Further reading
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bacaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “baccaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language