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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish buide.
Pronunciation
Adjective
buí (comparative buí or buíocha)
- yellow (having yellow as its colour)
- (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.- Beauty is only skin deep.
- (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
- tan
Declension
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Singular
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Plural (m/f)
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| Positive
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Masculine
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Feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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| Nominative
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buí
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bhuí
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buí;
bhuí²
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| Vocative
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bhuí
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buí
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| Genitive
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buí
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buí
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buí
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| Dative
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buí;
bhuí¹
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bhuí
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buí;
bhuí²
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| Comparative
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níos buí
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| Superlative
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is buí
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¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
Noun
buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)
- yellow (colour)
- yellow fever
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| buí
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bhuí
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mbuí
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “buí” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
- Entries containing “buí” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46