buar
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish búar (“cattle, cows, kine”), from bó (“cow”).
Noun
buar m (genitive singular buair)
Derived terms
- buarán (“dried cow dung”)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish búar (“diarrhoea”).
Noun
buar m (genitive singular buair)
Declension
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Mutation
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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buar | bhuar | mbuar |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Noun
buar m (definite singular buaren, indefinite plural buarar, definite plural buarane)
- (usually in compounds) a habitant
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk terms suffixed with -buar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
buar
- present tense of bue
References
- “-bura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.