bobaireacht

Irish

Etymology

From bobaire (“practical joker”) (from Middle English bobben (“to deride, insult; fool, deceive”)) + -acht.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɔbˠəɾʲəxt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɔbˠəɾʲaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

bobaireacht f (genitive singular bobaireachta)

1. trickery (underhanded behavior)

Declension

Declension of bobaireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bobaireacht vocative a bhobaireacht genitive bobaireachta dative bobaireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhobaireacht genitive na bobaireachta dative leis an mbobaireacht don bhobaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bobaireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bobaireacht	bhobaireacht	mbobaireacht

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

Further reading

• “bobaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bobaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN