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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bosca boscaí
Vocative a bhosca a bhoscaí
Genitive bosca boscaí
Dative bosca boscaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bosca na boscaí
Genitive an bhosca na mboscaí
Dative leis an mbosca

don bhosca

leis na boscaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bosca bhosca mbosca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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