buidéal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish buidél, from Old French botele, from Late Latin butticula, a diminutive of buttis (“cask”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠɪˈdʲeːl̪ˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʊdʲeːl/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠɪdʲælˠ/

Noun

buidéal m (genitive singular buidéil, nominative plural buidéil)

1. bottle

Declension

Declension of buidéal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative buidéal buidéil Vocative a bhuidéil a bhuidéala Genitive buidéil buidéal Dative buidéal buidéil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an buidéal na buidéil Genitive an bhuidéil na mbuidéal Dative leis an mbuidéal don bhuidéal leis na buidéil

Derived terms

• buidéal naigín
• buidéal te
• buidéalaí
• buidéalaigh
• chomh díonmhar le buidéal
• fiabhuidéal
• meábhuidéal
• niteoir buidéal
• píopaire buidéil
• raca buidéal
• scóig buidéil
• scrogall buidéil
• úth buidéil

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buidéal	bhuidéal	mbuidéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buidéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “buidél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18