buíochas

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish buídechus (compare Scottish Gaelic buidheachas).[1] By surface analysis, buíoch +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

Noun

buíochas m (genitive singular buíochais)

  1. thanks, gratitude
    Tá buíochas agam ort.
    I am grateful to you.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61:
      fuəŕədr̥ bŭīxəs mōr ō n ńūšcīš fȳ n īnəšə jīŕəx, ə rińə šiəd.
      [Fuaradar buíochas mór ón ngiúistís faoin fhianaise dhíreach a rinne siad.]
      They got great thanks from the magistrate for the straightforward testimony they gave.

Declension

Declension of buíochas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative buíochas
vocative a bhuíochais
genitive buíochais
dative buíochas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an buíochas
genitive an bhuíochais
dative leis an mbuíochas
don bhuíochas

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of buíochas
radical lenition eclipsis
buíochas bhuíochas mbuíochas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “buīdechus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61

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