bosca
Dalmatian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *bauscia or *baucia, of Germanic origin. Compare Italian bugia, Friulian bausie, Occitan bauzia, bauza, Old French boisie, Sardinian bigía, busia.
Noun edit
bosca f
Related terms edit
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bosca m (genitive singular bosca, nominative plural boscaí)
Declension edit
Declension of bosca
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bosca | bhosca | mbosca |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bosca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “bosca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
- Entries containing “bosca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.