bunaosta

Irish

Etymology

From bunaois (“fairly advanced age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or bun- (“basic, primary, elementary; medium; fairly old”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

bunaosta

1. fairly old; (of person) middle-aged

Synonyms

• (fairly old): breacaosta, scothaosta
• (middle-aged): meánaosta

Related terms

• anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
• bunbhean f (“middle-aged woman”)
• bunfhear m (“middle-aged man”)
• cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
• cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
• comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
• críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
• foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
• lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
• tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
• tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of bunaosta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bunaosta	bhunaosta	mbunaosta

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bunaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN