buidheachas

Irish

Noun

buidheachas m (genitive singular buidheachais)

1. Archaic form of buíochas (“thanks, gratitude”).

Declension

Declension of buidheachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative buidheachas vocative a bhuidheachais genitive buidheachais dative buidheachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an buidheachas genitive an bhuidheachais dative leis an mbuidheachas don bhuidheachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of buidheachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buidheachas	bhuidheachas	mbuidheachas

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) “buidheachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish buīdechus (compare Irish buíochas). By surface analysis, buidheach +‎ -as.

Noun

buidheachas m (genitive singular buidheachais, no plural)

1. gratitude, thanks, thanksgiving, acknowledgement

Mutation

Mutation of buidheachas

radical	lenition
buidheachas	bhuidheachas

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “buidheachas”, 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), “buīdechus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language