buaine

Irish

From Old Irish búaine (“quality of being lasting; permanence; constancy”). By surface analysis, buan +‎ -e.

buaine f (genitive singular buaine)

Declension of buaine (fourth declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an bhuaine
genitive	na buaine
dative	leis an mbuaine don bhuaine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

buaine

inflection of buan (“during, permanent; steadfast, solid”):
1. genitive singular feminine
2. comparative degree

Mutated forms of *buaine*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
buaine	bhuaine	mbuaine

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

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28