puiteach

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “maybe from English 'putty', but that's only speculation.”)

Pronunciation

Noun

puiteach m (genitive singular puitigh)

  1. mud, muck
    Synonyms: láib, lathach

Declension

Declension of puiteach (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative puiteach
vocative a phuiteach
genitive puitigh
dative puiteach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an phuiteach
genitive na puitigh
dative leis an bpuiteach
don phuiteach

Mutation

Mutated forms of puiteach
radical lenition eclipsis
puiteach phuiteach bpuiteach

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

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