buí
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish buide, from Proto-Celtic *bodyos.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /bˠiː/[3]
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /bˠiə/[4] (corresponding to the superseded spelling buidhe)
- Homophone: baoth (Connacht)
Adjective
[edit]buí (comparative buí or buíocha)
- yellow (having yellow as its colour)
- (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.”)
- tan
Declension
[edit]| 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.
- Alternative comparative form: buíocha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
[edit]- arán buí
- barrbhuí
- buíbhallach (“spotted with yellow”)
- buíbhán (“light yellow; cream-coloured”)
- buíbhreac (“speckled with yellow”)
- buídhearg (“yellowish-red”)
- buídhonn
- buígh (“yellow, tan”)
- buíliath
- buíocán
- buíocht (“yellowness; sallowness”)
- ceannbhuí
- cróchbhuí (“saffron yellow”)
- donnbhuí
- dúbhuí (“dark yellow”)
- Fear Buí (“Orangeman”)
- flannbhuí
- geansaí buí (“yellow jersey”)
- gine buí (“yellow, golden, guinea”)
- grán buí
- gruth buí
- iasc buí (“dried fish”)
- leathbhuí
- ór buí (“yellow gold”)
- órbhuí (“golden-coloured”)
- osbhuí
- scothbhuí
- seabhac buí
- solas buí gréine (“golden sunlight”)
Noun
[edit]buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)
- yellow (colour)
- yellow fever
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- buí cumhra (“mignonette”)
- buí mór (“dyer's rocket”)
- buí na mbáb (“spurge”)
- buí na n-iníon (“spurge”)
- osbhuí (“fawn”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Yola: buee
Mutation
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ “buí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 369, page 125
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “buí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “buí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024