Boirneoch

Irish

Etymology

Boirneo (“Borneo”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix)

Adjective

Boirneoch (genitive singular masculine Boirneoigh, genitive singular feminine Boirneoiche, plural Boirneocha, not comparable)

1. Bornean

Declension

Declension of Boirneoch

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	Boirneoch	Bhoirneoch	Boirneocha; Bhoirneocha2
vocative	Bhoirneoigh		Boirneocha
genitive		Boirneoiche	Boirneocha	Boirneoch
dative	Boirneoch; Bhoirneoch1	Bhoirneoch; Bhoirneoigh (archaic)	Boirneocha; Bhoirneocha2
Comparative	(not comparable)
Superlative	(not comparable)

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

Noun

Boirneoch m (genitive singular Boirneoigh, nominative plural Boirneoigh)

1. Bornean

Declension

Declension of Boirneoch (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative Boirneoch Boirneoigh vocative a Bhoirneoigh a Bhoirneocha genitive Boirneoigh Boirneoch dative Boirneoch Boirneoigh forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an Boirneoch na Boirneoigh genitive an Bhoirneoigh na mBoirneoch dative leis an mBoirneoch don Bhoirneoch leis na Boirneoigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of Boirneoch

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Boirneoch	Bhoirneoch	mBoirneoch

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Boirneoch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN