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Irish
Adjective
buidhe
- Superseded spelling of buí (“yellow”).
Mutation
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Eclipsis
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bhuidhe
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mbuidhe
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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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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpujə/, ,
- Hyphenation: bui‧dhe
Etymology 1
From Old Irish buide (“yellow”), from Proto-Celtic *bodyos (“yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bodyos (“yellow, brown”), source of Latin badius.
Adjective
buidhe (comparative buidhe)
- yellow
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
From Old Irish buide (“thanks, gratitude”), from Proto-Celtic *bodiyā, from *bodos (“good will”) (compare Welsh bodd (“good will”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).
Adjective
buidhe (comparative buidhe)
- glad, grateful
- fortunate, lucky
- nach buidhe dhut! ― aren't you lucky!
Mutation
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bhuidhe
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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
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “buidhe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language