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Irish
Noun
buirbe f (genitive singular buirbe)
- Alternative form of boirbe (“fierceness; rudeness; coarseness; rankness”)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| buirbe
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bhuirbe
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mbuirbe
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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
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Adjective
buirbe
- genitive singular feminine of borb
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| buirbe
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buirbe
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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mbuirbe
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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
Etymology
From Old Irish burbae, buirbe, burba, borba (“stupidity, ignorance; boorishness, harshness, fierceness, violence”) (compare Irish boirbe), from borb (“foolish, silly, senseless; stupid, ignorant, unlearned; rude, uncouth; fierce, rough, rude, violent, harsh; arrogant”).
Noun
buirbe f
- atrocity, barbarism, ferocity, fierceness, rudeness, savagery
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| buirbe |
bhuirbe
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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
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “buirbe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “burbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language