From Middle Irish bulbing, borrowed from Old Norse bulmingr ~ bylmingr (“bread baked in ash”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic builionn and Manx bwilleen.[1]
builín m (genitive singular builín, nominative plural builíní)
- loaf (of bread)
- Synonyms: bairín, bollóg
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
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- ^ T.F. O'Rahilly (1942) “Notes, mainly etymological”, in Ériu, volume 13, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, 35. builín, builbhín, page 200
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “builín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bulbing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “builín”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “builín”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024