buairt

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish buaidirt.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

buairt f (genitive singular buartha, nominative plural buarthaí)

  1. sorrow, vexation, devastation
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Ní fada nuair a bhí sí an méid sin buadhartha curtha aici di.
      It didn’t take her long to get over this amount of grief.

Declension

Declension of buairt (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buairt buarthaí
vocative a bhuairt a bhuarthaí
genitive buartha buarthaí
dative buairt buarthaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhuairt na buarthaí
genitive na buartha na mbuarthaí
dative leis an mbuairt
don bhuairt 		leis na buarthaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of buairt
radical lenition eclipsis
buairt bhuairt mbuairt

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

References

  1. ^ “buairt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaidred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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