boim

See also: böim

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish boim, from Old Irish boimm, from Proto-Celtic *buxsman, from either Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”)[1] or *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boim m (genitive singular boma, nominative plural bomanna)

  1. (literary) piece, fragment

Declension

Declension of boim (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative boim bomanna
vocative a bhoim a bhomanna
genitive boma bomanna
dative boim bomanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an boim na bomanna
genitive an bhoma na mbomanna
dative leis an mboim
don bhoim 		leis na bomanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of boim
radical lenition eclipsis
boim bhoim mboim

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

References

  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 69

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [boˈim]

Verb

boim

  1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of boi
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