buailteachas

Irish

Etymology

From buaile (“shieling, paddock”)

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠuəl̠ʲtʲaxəsˠ/, [ˈbˠui̯l̠ʲtʲaxəsˠ]

Noun

buailteachas m (genitive singular buailteachais)

1. summer grazing, transhumance

Declension

Declension of buailteachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative buailteachas vocative a bhuailteachais genitive buailteachais dative buailteachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an buailteachas genitive an bhuailteachais dative leis an mbuailteachas don bhuailteachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of buailteachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buailteachas	bhuailteachas	mbuailteachas

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

Further reading

• “buailteachas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búailtechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buailteaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 96
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buailteachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59