boinneach

Irish

Noun

boinneach f (genitive singular boinní)

1. Alternative form of buinneach (“scour, diarrhoea”)

Declension

Declension of boinneach

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative boinneach Vocative a bhoinneach Genitive boinní Dative boinneach

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an bhoinneach Genitive na boinní Dative leis an mboinneach don bhoinneach

Adjective

boinneach (genitive singular masculine boinnigh, genitive singular feminine boinní, plural boinneacha)

1. Alternative form of buinneach (“shooting, surging; discharging”)

Declension

Declension of boinneach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	boinneach	bhoinneach	boinneacha; bhoinneacha²
Vocative	bhoinnigh		boinneacha
Genitive		boinní	boinneacha	boinneach
Dative	boinneach; bhoinneach¹	bhoinneach; bhoinnigh (archaic)	boinneacha; bhoinneacha²
Comparative	níos boinní
Superlative	is boinní

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
boinneach	bhoinneach	mboinneach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “boinne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN