buaic

Irish

Alternative forms

• bóc

Etymology

From Old Irish búaic (“top, summit”).

Noun

buaic f (genitive singular buaice, nominative plural buaiceanna)

1. highest point
2. ridge, crest
3. (nautical, of ship, etc.) prow
4. Alternative form of buaiceas (“wick”)

Declension

Declension of bóc (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bóc buaiceanna vocative a bhóc a bhuaiceanna genitive buaice buaiceanna dative bóc buaiceanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhóc na buaiceanna genitive na buaice na mbuaiceanna dative leis an mbóc don bhóc leis na buaiceanna

Derived terms

• buaic na spéire (“zenith”)
• buaic réalta (“meridian of star”)

Related terms

• spuaic

Mutation

Mutated forms of buaic

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buaic	bhuaic	mbuaic

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) “buaic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “buaic”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “buaic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025