botún

See also: botun

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

  1. farrier's knife
  2. blunder, mistake, error
  3. (tennis) fault
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • botún dúbailte (“double fault”)
  • botúnach (“blundering; awkward”, adjective)
  • botúnaí f (“blundering, awkwardness”)
  • botúnaí m (“blunderer”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

  1. stomach of goose
  2. fat fledgling

Declension

Declension of botún (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative botún botúin
vocative a bhotúin a bhotúna
genitive botúin botún
dative botún botúin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an botún na botúin
genitive an bhotúin na mbotún
dative leis an mbotún
don bhotún 		leis na botúin

Mutation

Mutated forms of botún
radical lenition eclipsis
botún bhotún mbotún

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

References

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