buidheachas

Irish

Noun

buidheachas m (genitive singular buidheachais)

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

Declension

Declension of buidheachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buidheachas	bhuidheachas	mbuidheachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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^[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