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Irish
Etymology
Literally, “yellow bittern”; however, it is unlikely to refer to the bird known in English as the yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis), which is native to Central and East Asia and unknown in Ireland. Dictionaries gloss bonnán buí (and bonnán léana (literally “water-meadow bittern”)) simply as “bittern”, but it probably refers specifically to the common, Eurasian or great bittern (Botaurus stellaris), which was common in Ireland until the mid-19th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bonnán buí m (genitive singular bonnáin bhuí, nominative plural bonnáin bhuí)
- bittern
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| bonnán buí
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bhonnán buí
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mbonnán buí
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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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References
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “bonnán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bonnán buí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “bonnán buí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024