See also: bui, Bui, BUI, bùi, Bùi, búi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish buide, from Proto-Celtic *bodyos.[2]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

  1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
  2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
    Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.
    Beauty is only skin deep.
    (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
  3. tan

Declension

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Declension of buí
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative buí bhuí buí;
bhuí2
vocative bhuí buí
genitive buí buí buí
dative buí;
bhuí1
bhuí buí;
bhuí2
Comparative níos buí
Superlative is buí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

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Noun

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buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
  2. yellow fever

Declension

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Declension of buí (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative buí buíonna
vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna
genitive buí buíonna
dative buí buíonna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an buí na buíonna
genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna
dative leis an mbuí
don bhuí
leis na buíonna

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Yola: buee

Mutation

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Mutated forms of buí
radical lenition eclipsis
buí bhuí mbuí

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

References

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  1. ^ buí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 369, page 125

Further reading

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