buí

See also: bui, Bui, BUI, bùi, Bùi, búi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish buide.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bˠiː/, [bˠwiː]
  • (Ulster, also) IPA(key): /bˠiə/ (corresponding to the superseded spelling buidhe)[1]
  • Homophone: baoth (Connacht)

Adjective

buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

  1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
  2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced
    Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.
    Beauty is only skin deep.
    (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)
  3. tan

Declension
Declension of buí
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative buí bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Vocative bhuí buí
Genitive buí buí buí
Dative buí;
bhuí¹		 bhuí buí;
bhuí²
Comparative níos buí
Superlative is buí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms
  • arán buí
  • barrbhuí
  • buíbhallach (“spotted with yellow”)
  • buíbhán (“light yellow; cream-coloured”)
  • buíbhreac (“speckled with yellow”)
  • buídhearg (“yellowish-red”)
  • buídhonn
  • buígh (“yellow, tan”)
  • buíliath
  • buíocán
  • buíocht (“yellowness; sallowness”)
  • ceannbhuí
  • cróchbhuí (“saffron yellow”)
  • donnbhuí
  • dúbhuí (“dark yellow”)
  • Fear Buí (“Orangeman”)
  • flannbhuí
  • geansaí buí (“yellow jersey”)
  • gine buí (“yellow, golden, guinea”)
  • grán buí
  • gruth buí
  • iasc buí (“dried fish”)
  • leathbhuí
  • ór buí (“yellow gold”)
  • órbhuí (“golden-coloured”)
  • osbhuí
  • scothbhuí
  • seabhac buí
  • solas buí gréine (“golden sunlight”)

Noun

buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

  1. yellow (colour)
  2. yellow fever

Declension
Declension of buí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buí buíonna
Vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna
Genitive buí buíonna
Dative buí buíonna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an buí na buíonna
Genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna
Dative leis an mbuí

don bhuí

 leis na buíonna

Derived terms
  • buí cumhra (“mignonette”)
  • buí mór (“dyer's rocket”)
  • buí na mbáb (“spurge”)
  • buí na n-iníon (“spurge”)
  • osbhuí (“fawn”)

Descendants
  • → Yola: buee

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

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 19

Further reading
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