botún

See also: botun

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

  1. farrier's knife
  2. blunder, mistake, error
  3. (tennis) fault
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • botún dúbailte (“double fault”)
  • botúnach (“blundering; awkward”, adjective)
  • botúnaí f (“blundering, awkwardness”)
  • botúnaí m (“blunderer”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

  1. stomach of goose
  2. fat fledgling

Declension
Declension of botún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative botún botúin
Vocative a bhotúin a bhotúna
Genitive botúin botún
Dative botún botúin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an botún na botúin
Genitive an bhotúin na mbotún
Dative leis an mbotún

don bhotún

 leis na botúin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
botún bhotún mbotún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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