buairt

Irish

Alternative forms

• buadhairt, buaidhirt (superseded)
• buaidhreadh, buaireamh

Etymology

From Middle Irish buaidirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠuəɾˠtʲ/

Noun

buairt f (genitive singular buartha, nominative plural buarthaí)

1. sorrow, vexation, devastation
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:

     Ní fada nuair a bhí sí an méid sin buadhartha curtha aici di.

     It didn’t take her long to get over this amount of grief.

Declension

Declension of buairt (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative buairt buarthaí vocative a bhuairt a bhuarthaí genitive buartha buarthaí dative buairt buarthaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhuairt na buarthaí genitive na buartha na mbuarthaí dative leis an mbuairt don bhuairt leis na buarthaí

Related terms

• buair

Mutation

Mutated forms of buairt

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buairt	bhuairt	mbuairt

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buairt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN