buatais

Irish

Alternative forms

• bútais

Etymology

From Old French botes (“boots”), of Germanic origin, reinterpreted as a singular.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠuət̪ˠəʃ/

Noun

buatais f (genitive singular buataise, nominative plural buataisí)

1. boot, topboot

   buatais rubair ― rubber boot, gumboot, Wellington boot

Declension

Declension of buatais (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative buatais buataisí vocative a bhuatais a bhuataisí genitive buataise buataisí dative buatais buataisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhuatais na buataisí genitive na buataise na mbuataisí dative leis an mbuatais don bhuatais leis na buataisí

Derived terms

• buatais cheathrún (“thigh boot”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of buatais

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buatais	bhuatais	mbuatais

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

Further reading

• “buatais”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búat(a)is or dil.ie/7299”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buatais”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 97
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 57
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buatais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN