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Irish
Etymology
From bunaois (“fairly advanced age”) + -ta (adjectival suffix) or bun- (“basic, primary, elementary; medium; fairly old”) + aosta (“aged, old”).
Adjective
bunaosta
- fairly old; (of person) middle-aged
Synonyms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- bunbhean f (“middle-aged woman”)
- bunfhear m (“middle-aged man”)
- cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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