buimpéis

Irish

Alternative forms

  • buimpís

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”) (with the -s of the plural reanalyzed as part of the stem), from Old French avantpié. Cognate with English vamp.

Pronunciation

Noun

buimpéis f (genitive singular buimpéise, nominative plural buimpéisí)

  1. vamp (top part of shoe or boot)

Declension

Declension of buimpéis (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative buimpéis buimpéisí
vocative a bhuimpéis a bhuimpéisí
genitive buimpéise buimpéisí
dative buimpéis buimpéisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhuimpéis na buimpéisí
genitive na buimpéise na mbuimpéisí
dative leis an mbuimpéis
don bhuimpéis 		leis na buimpéisí

Mutation

Mutated forms of buimpéis
radical lenition eclipsis
buimpéis bhuimpéis mbuimpéis

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 19, page 12
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