boinneach

Irish

Noun

boinneach f (genitive singular boinní)

1. Alternative form of buinneach (“scour, diarrhoea”)

Declension

Declension of boinneach (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative boinneach vocative a bhoinneach genitive boinní dative boinneach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhoinneach genitive na boinní dative leis an mboinneach don bhoinneach

Adjective

boinneach (genitive singular masculine boinnigh, genitive singular feminine boinní, plural boinneacha)

1. Alternative form of buinneach (“shooting, surging; discharging”)

Declension

Declension of boinneach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine
nominative	boinneach	bhoinneach	boinneacha; bhoinneacha2
vocative	bhoinnigh		boinneacha
genitive		boinní	strong noun	weak noun
			boinneacha	boinneach
dative	boinneach; bhoinneach1	bhoinneach; bhoinnigh (archaic)	boinneacha; bhoinneacha2
Comparative	níos boinní
Superlative	is boinní

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of boinneach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
boinneach	bhoinneach	mboinneach

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

References

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