buicéad

Irish

Alternative forms

  • bucaed, bucaod
  • buiceud (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English buket, from Anglo-Norman buket (“tub, pail”), diminutive of buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”). More at bucket.

Pronunciation

Noun

buicéad m (genitive singular buicéid, nominative plural buicéid)

  1. bucket

Declension

Declension of buicéad (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative buicéad buicéid
vocative a bhuicéid a bhuicéada
genitive buicéid buicéad
dative buicéad buicéid
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an buicéad na buicéid
genitive an bhuicéid na mbuicéad
dative leis an mbuicéad
don bhuicéad 		leis na buicéid

Mutation

Mutated forms of buicéad
radical lenition eclipsis
buicéad bhuicéad mbuicéad

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

References

  1. ^ “buicéad”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
  3. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 153, page 36
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 403, page 133

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