Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish búarach, from bó (“cow”) + árach (“bond, fetter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
buarach f (genitive singular buaraí, nominative plural buaracha)
- spancel (for a cow during milking)
Declension
Declension of buarach (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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buarach
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buaracha
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| vocative
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a bhuarach
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a bhuaracha
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| genitive
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buaraí
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buarach
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| dative
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buarach
buaraigh (archaic, dialectal)
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buaracha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an bhuarach
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na buaracha
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| genitive
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na buaraí
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na mbuarach
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| dative
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leis an mbuarach
leis an mbuaraigh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhuarach
don bhuaraigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na buaracha
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of buarach
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| buarach
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bhuarach
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mbuarach
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búarach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaraċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 97
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
