buail

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Irish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Middle Irish búailid (beats, strikes, assaults; knocks (on); strikes, coins (money); stamps, impresses (a seal), verb).[1] See buille (blow, stroke).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

buail (present analytic buaileann, future analytic buailfidh, verbal noun bualadh, past participle buailte)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) strike, hit, beat
    An té a bhuailtear sa cheann bíonn eagla air.A burnt child dreads the fire. (literally, “He who gets hit in the head has fear.”)
  2. defeat, beat
  3. strike out, make one's way, proceed
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Do bhuail sé an cé isteach agus bhí Máire Bhán agus a leanbhín álainn roimis agus sceitimíní uirthi ag fáiltiughadh roimis.
      He made his way onto the quay, and Máire Bhán and her beautiful little child were waiting for him, and welcomed him excitedly.
  4. to clap (one's hands)
  5. to mint (coins)

Conjugation

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

Mutation

[edit]
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buail bhuail mbuail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búailid, búalaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

[edit]

Scottish Gaelic

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Irish búalaid. See buille (blow, stroke).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

buail (past bhuail, future buailidh, verbal noun bualadh, past participle buailte)

  1. strike, hit, bang, beat, smite, knock, pelt, rap, thrust, thump
  2. thrash, thresh (corn)
  3. coin

Derived terms

[edit]

Mutation

[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
buail bhuail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

buail m pl

  1. plural of bual

Mutation

[edit]
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
buail fuail muail unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.