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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French botes (“boots”), of Germanic origin, reinterpreted as a singular.
Pronunciation
Noun
buatais f (genitive singular buataise, nominative plural buataisí)
- boot, topboot
- buatais rubair ― rubber boot, gumboot, Wellington boot
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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| buatais
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bhuatais
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mbuatais
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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
- “buatais”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “búat(a)is or dil.ie/7299”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buatais”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 97
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 57
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buatais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN