buaireamh

buaireamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish búaidred m (“act of troubling, disturbing, confusing; trouble, disturbance, perturbation, confusion, molestation, tribulation”), verbal noun of búaidrid (“disturbs, troubles, harasses, confuses”, verb), ultimately from búaidre f (“confusion, distraction, disturbance”)

Noun

buaireamh m (genitive singular buairimh or buartha)

1. verbal noun of buair
2. sorrow, vexation

Declension

Declension of buaireamh

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative buaireamh Vocative a bhuairimh Genitive buairimh Dative buaireamh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an buaireamh Genitive an bhuairimh Dative leis an mbuaireamh don bhuaireamh

(as verbal noun):

Declension of buaireamh

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative buaireamh Vocative a bhuaireamh Genitive buartha Dative buaireamh

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an buaireamh Genitive an bhuartha Dative leis an mbuaireamh don bhuaireamh

Synonyms

• (sorrow, vexation): buairt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buaireamh	bhuaireamh	mbuaireamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "buaireamh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “búaidred”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN