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buair

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish búaidrid (disturbs, troubles, harasses, confuses, verb), from búaidre f (confusion, distraction, disturbance).

Verb

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buair (present analytic buaireann, future analytic buairfidh, verbal noun buaireamh, past participle buartha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) grieve; vex, perturb
Conjugation
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Alternative forms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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buair m

  1. genitive singular of buar

Mutation

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Mutated forms of buair
radical lenition eclipsis
buair bhuair mbuair

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

References

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish búaidrid (disturbs, troubles, harasses, confuses, verb), from búaidre f (confusion, distraction, disturbance).

Verb

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buair (past bhuair, future buairidh, verbal noun buaireadh, past participle buairte)

  1. disturb, trouble, upset
  2. tempt

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “buair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaidrid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language