búachaill

See also: buachaill

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bóchaill

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos (compare Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos)), from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, move around, sojourn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːa̯xil͈ʲ/

Noun

búachaill m

1. cowherd
2. herdsman

Inflection

Masculine i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	búachaill	búachaillL	búachailliH
vocative	búachaill	búachaillL	búachailliH
accusative	búachaillN	búachaillL	búachailliH
genitive	búachalloH, búachallaH	búachalloH, búachallaH	búachailleN
dative	búachaillL	búachaillib	búachaillib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: buachaill
• Manx: bochilley
• Scottish Gaelic: buachaill, buachaille

Mutation

Mutation of búachaill

radical	lenition	nasalization
búachaill	búachaill pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbúachaill

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

Further reading

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