bosca

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See also: Bosca, boscà, and bošča

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bauscia or *baucia, of Germanic origin. Compare Italian bugia, Friulian bausie, Occitan bauzia, bauza, Old French boisie, Sardinian bigía, busia.

Noun

bosca f

  1. lie, untruth

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.

Pronunciation

Noun

bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)

  1. box (container)
  2. box (tree or shrub of the genus Buxus), boxwood

Declension

Declension of bosca (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bosca boscaí
vocative a bhosca a bhoscaí
genitive bosca boscaí
dative bosca boscaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bosca na boscaí
genitive an bhosca na mboscaí
dative leis an mbosca
don bhosca 		leis na boscaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bosca
radical lenition eclipsis
bosca bhosca mbosca

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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