buaireamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• buaidhreadh, buaidhreamh (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish búaidred m (“trouble, disturbance”), verbal noun of búaidrid (“to disturb, trouble”), from búaidre f (“confusion, disturbance”). By surface analysis, buair +‎ -amh.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠuəɾʲu/, [ˈbˠui̯ɾʲu]

Noun

buaireamh m (genitive singular as substantive buairimh, genitive as verbal noun buartha)

1. verbal noun of buair
2. sorrow, vexation

Declension

Declension of buaireamh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative buaireamh vocative a bhuairimh genitive buairimh dative buaireamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an buaireamh genitive an bhuairimh dative leis an mbuaireamh don bhuaireamh

(as verbal noun):

Declension of buaireamh (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative buaireamh vocative a bhuaireamh genitive buartha dative buaireamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an buaireamh genitive an bhuartha dative leis an mbuaireamh don bhuaireamh

Synonyms

• (sorrow, vexation): buairt

Mutation

Mutated forms of buaireamh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buaireamh	bhuaireamh	mbuaireamh

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) “buaireamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búaidred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59