Boirneo

Irish

Etymology

Probably from Sanskrit वरुणद्वीप (varuṇadvīpa, literally “island of Varuna”).

Proper noun

Boirneo m (genitive Boirneo)

1. Borneo (an island in the Malay Archipelago, shared by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei)

Derived terms

• Boirneoch (“Bornean”, adjective)
• Boirneoch m (“Bornean”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Boirneo

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Boirneo	Bhoirneo	mBoirneo

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

Further reading

• “Borneo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Boirneo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm