buí

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See also: bui, Bui, BUI, bùi, Bùi, búi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish buide, from Proto-Celtic *bodyos.[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

  1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
  2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
    Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.
    Beauty is only skin deep.
    (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
  3. tan

Declension

Declension of buí
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative buí bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Vocative bhuí buí
Genitive buí buí buí
Dative buí;
bhuí¹ 		bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Comparative níos buí
Superlative is buí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Noun

buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
  2. yellow fever

Declension

Declension of buí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buí buíonna
Vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna
Genitive buí buíonna
Dative buí buíonna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an buí na buíonna
Genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna
Dative leis an mbuí

don bhuí

leis na buíonna

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Yola: buee

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buí bhuí mbuí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “buí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 369, page 125

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