buinneach

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish buinnech (“diarrhoea”), from buinne.[2]

Noun

buinneach f (genitive singular buinní)

  1. (medicine) scour, diarrhea
Declension
Declension of buinneach (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative buinneach
vocative a bhuinneach
genitive buinní
dative buinneach
buinnigh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bhuinneach
genitive na buinní
dative leis an mbuinneach
leis an mbuinnigh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhuinneach
don bhuinnigh (archaic, dialectal)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish buinnech (“gushing, flowing”).[3] By surface analysis, buinne (“torrent, spout”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

buinneach (genitive singular masculine buinnigh, genitive singular feminine buinní, plural buinneacha)

  1. shooting, surging
  2. (medicine, of sore, etc.) discharging
Declension
Declension of buinneach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative buinneach bhuinneach buinneacha;
bhuinneacha2
vocative bhuinnigh buinneacha
genitive buinní buinneacha buinneach
dative buinneach;
bhuinneach1 		bhuinneach;
bhuinnigh (archaic) 		buinneacha;
bhuinneacha2
Comparative níos buinní
Superlative is buinní

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of buinneach
radical lenition eclipsis
buinneach bhuinneach mbuinneach

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 90
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 buinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish buinnech (“diarrhoea”), from buinne.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuɲəx/

Noun

buinneach f (genitive singular buinnich, no plural)

  1. (medicine) diarrhea

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 buinnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “buinneach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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