babhta

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English bout, from Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”).

Noun

babhta m (genitive singular babhta, nominative plural babhtaí)

  1. bout
    1. spell, turn
    2. (sports) round
  2. time, occasion
  3. blow
Declension
Declension of babhta (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative babhta babhtaí
vocative a bhabhta a bhabhtaí
genitive babhta babhtaí
dative babhta babhtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an babhta na babhtaí
genitive an bhabhta na mbabhtaí
dative leis an mbabhta
don bhabhta 		leis na babhtaí
Derived terms
  • babhta oibre (“spell of work”)
  • babhta óil (“binge”)
  • babhta tinnis (“bout of illness”)
  • babhtaí (“sometimes”)
  • réamhbhabhta (“preliminary [sports]”)

Etymology 2

From English boot, from Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“advantage”), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“good”).

Noun

babhta m (genitive singular babhta, nominative plural babhtaí)

  1. boot (something given to equalize an exchange)
  2. thing exchanged
  3. addition
Declension
Declension of babhta (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative babhta babhtaí
vocative a bhabhta a bhabhtaí
genitive babhta babhtaí
dative babhta babhtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an babhta na babhtaí
genitive an bhabhta na mbabhtaí
dative leis an mbabhta
don bhabhta 		leis na babhtaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of babhta
radical lenition eclipsis
babhta bhabhta mbabhta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 24, page 14

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