Irish
Etymology
bó (“cow”) + aire (“nobleman”); however, the fourth-declension inflection pattern suggests it has been reinterpreted as containing the agentive suffix -aire
Noun
bó-aire m (genitive singular bó-aire or bó-aireach, nominative plural bó-airí or bó-aireacha)
- (historical) cattleman, cowman
Declension
As a fourth-declension noun:
Declension of bó-aire (fourth declension)
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As a fifth-declension noun:
Declension of bó-aire (fifth declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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bó-aire
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bó-aireacha
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| vocative
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a bhó-aire
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a bhó-aireacha
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| genitive
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bó-aireach
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bó-aireacha
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| dative
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bó-aire
bó-airigh (archaic, dialectal)
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bó-aireacha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an bó-aire
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na bó-aireacha
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| genitive
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an bhó-aireach
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na mbó-aireacha
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| dative
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leis an mbó-aire
leis an mbó-airigh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhó-aire
don bhó-airigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na bó-aireacha
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Mutation
Mutated forms of bó-aire
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| bó-aire
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bhó-aire
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mbó-aire
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bóaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bó-aire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN