buinneach

Irish

From Old Irish buinnech (“diarrhoea”), from buinne.

buinneach f (genitive singular buinní)

Declension of buinneach

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	an bhuinneach
Genitive	na buinní
Dative	leis an mbuinneach don bhuinneach

From Old Irish buinnech (“gushing, flowing”); synchronically, buinne (“torrent, spout”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

buinneach (genitive singular masculine buinnigh, genitive singular feminine buinní, plural buinneacha)

Declension of buinneach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	buinneach	bhuinneach	buinneacha; bhuinneacha²
Vocative	bhuinnigh	bhuinneach	buinneacha
Genitive	bhuinnigh	buinní	buinneacha	buinneach
Dative	buinneach; bhuinneach¹	bhuinneach; bhuinnigh (archaic)	buinneacha; bhuinneacha²
Comparative	níos buinní
Superlative	is buinní

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buinneach	bhuinneach	mbuinneach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

"buinneach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“1 buinnech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“2 buinnech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish buinnech (“diarrhoea”), from buinne.

a' bhuinneach f (genitive singular buinnich)

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“2 buinnech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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