buarach

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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)

  1. spancel (for a cow during milking)

Declension

Declension of buarach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buarach buaracha
vocative a bhuarach a bhuaracha
genitive buaraí buarach
dative buarach
buaraigh (archaic, dialectal) 		buaracha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhuarach na buaracha
genitive na buaraí na mbuarach
dative leis an mbuarach
leis an mbuaraigh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhuarach
don bhuaraigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na buaracha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of buarach
radical lenition eclipsis
buarach bhuarach mbuarach

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28

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