bachlóg

Irish

Alternative forms

• bachallóg, bachla

Etymology

From Old Irish bachlóc (glossed, in Latin, monaculum), from bachall (“staff, crozier, pastoral staff”).

Noun

bachlóg f (genitive singular bachlóige, nominative plural bachlóga)

1. (botany) bud, sprout

Declension

Declension of bachlóg

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bachlóg bachlóga Vocative a bhachlóg a bhachlóga Genitive bachlóige bachlóg Dative bachlóg bachlóga

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhachlóg na bachlóga Genitive na bachlóige na mbachlóg Dative leis an mbachlóg don bhachlóg leis na bachlóga

Derived terms

• bachlóg a bheith ar do theanga (“to be indistinct of speech”)
• bachlóg Bhruiséile f (“Brussels sprout”)
• bachlógach (“sprouting; indistinct”, adjective)
• taobh-bhachlóg f (“lateral bud”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bachlóg	bhachlóg	mbachlóg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bachlóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bachlóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bachlóg”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bachlóg”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024