buaine
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish búaine (“quality of being lasting; permanence; constancy”). By surface analysis, buan + -e.
Noun
[edit]buaine f (genitive singular buaine)
- permanence, durability; longevity
- Synonyms: buaineacht, buaineadas, buaineas
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
[edit]buaine
- inflection of buan (“during, permanent; steadfast, solid”):
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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buaine | bhuaine | mbuaine |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “buaine”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “buaine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buaine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28