bú
From aTurkic language, compareTurkishbun(“boredom, worry”).
bú (usuallyuncountable,pluralbúk)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bú | búk |
| accusative | bút | búkat |
| dative | búnak | búknak |
| instrumental | búval | búkkal |
| causal-final | búért | búkért |
| translative | búvá | búkká |
| terminative | búig | búkig |
| essive-formal | búként | búkként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | búban | búkban |
| superessive | bún | búkon |
| adessive | búnál | búknál |
| illative | búba | búkba |
| sublative | búra | búkra |
| allative | búhoz | búkhoz |
| elative | búból | búkból |
| delative | búról | búkról |
| ablative | bútól | búktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular | búé | búké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural | búéi | búkéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | búm | búim |
| 2nd person sing. | búd | búid |
| 3rd person sing. | búja | búi |
| 1st person plural | búnk | búink |
| 2nd person plural | bútok | búitok |
| 3rd person plural | bújuk | búik |
Anonomatopoeia.
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FromOld Norsebú(“farming, a farm, farm stock”).
bú n (genitive singularbús,nominative pluralbú)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bú | búið | bú | búin |
| accusative | bú | búið | bú | búin |
| dative | búi | búinu | búum | búunum |
| genitive | bús | búsins | búa | búanna |
bú m (genitive singularbú,nominative pluralbúnna)
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| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| bú | bhú | mbú |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
bú
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| bú | bú pronounced with/β-/ | mbú |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
FromProto-Germanic*būą.
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Inherited fromProto-Vietic*buːʔ ~ *puːʔ, fromProto-Austroasiatic*ɓuːʔ(“to suck”). Cognate withKhmerបៅ(baw),Pnarbu,Khmu [Cuang]buʔ,Shwe Palaungဘူ,Gata'buˀ.Doublet ofvú via theprefixed proto-form.
Seevú. This form was unaffected bylenition after the loss of prefixal*k-.
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