buí

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
Positive singular plural
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

  • arán buí
  • barrbhuí
  • buíbhallach (“spotted with yellow”)
  • buíbhán (“light yellow; cream-coloured”)
  • buíbhreac (“speckled with yellow”)
  • buídhearg (“yellowish-red”)
  • buídhonn
  • buígh (“yellow, tan”)
  • buíliath
  • buíocán
  • buíocht (“yellowness; sallowness”)
  • ceannbhuí
  • cróchbhuí (“saffron yellow”)
  • donnbhuí
  • dúbhuí (“dark yellow”)
  • Fear Buí (“Orangeman”)
  • flannbhuí
  • geansaí buí (“yellow jersey”)
  • gine buí (“yellow, golden, guinea”)
  • grán buí
  • gruth buí
  • iasc buí (“dried fish”)
  • leathbhuí
  • ór buí (“yellow gold”)
  • órbhuí (“golden-coloured”)
  • osbhuí
  • scothbhuí
  • seabhac buí
  • solas buí gréine (“golden sunlight”)

Noun

buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
  2. yellow fever

Declension

Declension of buí (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative buí buíonna
vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna
genitive buí buíonna
dative buí buíonna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an buí na buíonna
genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna
dative leis an mbuí
don bhuí 		leis na buíonna

Derived terms

  • buí cumhra (“mignonette”)
  • buí mór (“dyer's rocket”)
  • buí na mbáb (“spurge”)
  • buí na n-iníon (“spurge”)
  • osbhuí (“fawn”)

Descendants

  • → Yola: buee

Mutation

Mutated forms of buí
radical lenition eclipsis
buí bhuí mbuí

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

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 [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 46
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 369, page 125

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