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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish búaile.
Pronunciation
Noun
buaile f (genitive singular buaile, nominative plural buailte or buailteacha)
- shieling (area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.)
- paddock (small enclosure or field)
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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| buaile
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bhuaile
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mbuaile
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaile”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 56
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buaile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN