buinneán
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Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)
- shoot (emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant)
- Synonym: beangán
- sapling (young tree)
- scion (descendant)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]From English bunion, adapted to the suffix -án and assimilated to etymology 1.
Noun
[edit]buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)
Declension
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Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]buinneán m (genitive singular buinneáin, nominative plural buinneáin)
Declension
[edit]Declension of buinneán
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| buinneán | bhuinneán | mbuinneán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 90
- ^ “buinneán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “buinnén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buinneán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 99
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buinneán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN