buicéad

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English buket, from Anglo-Norman buket (“tub, pail”), diminutive of buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”). More at bucket.

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /bˠɪˈceːd̪ˠ/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈbˠʊceːd̪ˠ/[1]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɪcad̪ˠ/

Noun

buicéad m (genitive singular buicéid, nominative plural buicéid)

  1. bucket

Declension
Declension of buicéad

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buicéad buicéid
Vocative a bhuicéid a bhuicéada
Genitive buicéid buicéad
Dative buicéad buicéid

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an buicéad na buicéid
Genitive an bhuicéid na mbuicéad
Dative leis an mbuicéad

don bhuicéad

 leis na buicéid

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

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58

Further reading
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