buinneán

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From buinne +‎ -án.

Alternative forms

Noun

buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)

  1. shoot (emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant)
    Synonym: beangán
  2. sapling (young tree)
  3. scion (descendant)
Declension
Declension of buinneán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buinneán buinneáin
vocative a bhuinneáin a bhuinneána
genitive buinneáin buinneán
dative buinneán buinneáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an buinneán na buinneáin
genitive an bhuinneáin na mbuinneán
dative leis an mbuinneán
don bhuinneán 		leis na buinneáin

Etymology 2

From English bunion, adapted to the suffix -án and assimilated to etymology 1.

Noun

buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)

  1. bunion
Declension
Declension of buinneán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buinneán buinneáin
vocative a bhuinneáin a bhuinneána
genitive buinneáin buinneán
dative buinneán buinneáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an buinneán na buinneáin
genitive an bhuinneáin na mbuinneán
dative leis an mbuinneán
don bhuinneán 		leis na buinneáin

Etymology 3

Noun

buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)

  1. Ulster form of bonnán (“bittern”)
Declension
Declension of buinneán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buinneán buinneáin
vocative a bhuinneáin a bhuinneána
genitive buinneáin buinneán
dative buinneán buinneáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an buinneán na buinneáin
genitive an bhuinneáin na mbuinneán
dative leis an mbuinneán
don bhuinneán 		leis na buinneáin
Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buinneán bhuinneán mbuinneán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 90
  2. ^ “buinneán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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