bithiúnach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bithbinech (“habitual criminal”), from bith (“lasting, permanent, perpetual”). By surface analysis, bith- (“ever-, constant”) +‎ Old Irish binech (“criminal”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪhuːnˠa(x)/, /ˈbʲɪhuːn̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

bithiúnach m (genitive singular bithiúnaigh, nominative plural bithiúnaigh)

1. cheat, crook, malefactor, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rough, ruffian, scoundrel, thug, varlet, villain

Declension

Declension of bithiúnach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bithiúnach bithiúnaigh vocative a bhithiúnaigh a bhithiúnacha genitive bithiúnaigh bithiúnach dative bithiúnach bithiúnaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bithiúnach na bithiúnaigh genitive an bhithiúnaigh na mbithiúnach dative leis an mbithiúnach don bhithiúnach leis na bithiúnaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of bithiúnach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bithiúnach	bhithiúnach	mbithiúnach

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) “bithiúnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bithbinech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language