búachaill

See also: buachaill

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bóchaill

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos (compare Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos)), from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, move around, sojourn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːa̯xil͈ʲ/

Noun

búachaill m

1. cowherd
2. herdsman

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	búachaill	búachaillL	búachailliH
Vocative	búachaill	búachaillL	búachailliH
Accusative	búachaillN	búachaillL	búachailliH
Genitive	búachalloH, búachallaH	búachalloH, búachallaH	búachailleN
Dative	búachaillL	búachaillib	búachaillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: buachaill
• Manx: bochilley
• Scottish Gaelic: buachaill, buachaille

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
búachaill	búachaill pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbúachaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búachaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language