bobaireacht

Irish

Etymology

From bobaire (“practical joker”) (from Middle English bobben (“to deride, insult; fool, deceive”)[1]) + -acht.

Pronunciation

Noun

bobaireacht f (genitive singular bobaireachta)

  1. trickery (underhanded behavior)

Declension

Declension of bobaireacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bobaireacht
vocative a bhobaireacht
genitive bobaireachta
dative bobaireacht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhobaireacht
genitive na bobaireachta
dative leis an mbobaireacht
don bhobaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bobaireacht
radical lenition eclipsis
bobaireacht bhobaireacht mbobaireacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “bobben, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 371, page 126

Further reading

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