buaf

Irish

From Middle Irish bufa, from Latin būfō. Cognate with Manx beayf.

buaf f (genitive singular buaife, nominative plural buafa)

Declension of buaf (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	buaf	buafa
vocative	a bhuaf	a bhuafa
genitive	buaife	buaf
dative	buaf buaif (archaic, dialectal)	buafa

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an bhuaf	na buafa
genitive	na buaife	na mbuaf
dative	leis an mbuaf leis an mbuaif (archaic, dialectal) don bhuaf don bhuaif (archaic, dialectal)	leis na buafa

Mutated forms of *buaf*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
buaf	bhuaf	mbuaf

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