bolscaire

Irish

Alternative forms

• bolsaire
• ballsaire, boillsuire, bollsaire, bollscaire, bollsgaire, bolsgaire (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɔl̪ˠsˠkərʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʌl̪ˠsˠərʲə/ (corresponding to the alternative form bolsaire)

Noun

bolscaire m (genitive singular bolscaire, nominative plural bolscairí)

1. crier, herald, announcer

   Synonym: aralt

2. propagandist, booster, publicist
3. blusterer

   Synonyms: bliústar, gal, galach

Declension

Declension of bolscaire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bolscaire bolscairí vocative a bholscaire a bholscairí genitive bolscaire bolscairí dative bolscaire bolscairí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bolscaire na bolscairí genitive an bholscaire na mbolscairí dative leis an mbolscaire don bholscaire leis na bolscairí

Mutation

Mutated forms of bolscaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bolscaire	bholscaire	mbolscaire

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

Further reading

• “bolscaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bollscaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 76
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bollsaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bolscaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN