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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish búarach, from bó (“cow”) + árach (“bond, fetter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
buarach f (genitive singular buaraí, nominative plural buaracha)
- spancel (for a cow during milking)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| buarach
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bhuarach
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mbuarach
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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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búarach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaraċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 97
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN