botún

See also: botun

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

1. farrier's knife
2. blunder, mistake, error
3. (tennis) fault

Synonyms

• (mistake, error): dearmad, earráid

Derived terms

• botún dúbailte (“double fault”)
• botúnach (“blundering; awkward”, adjective)
• botúnaí f (“blundering, awkwardness”)
• botúnaí m (“blunderer”)

 

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

botún m (genitive singular botúin, nominative plural botúin)

1. stomach of goose
2. fat fledgling

Declension

Declension of botún

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative botún botúin Vocative a bhotúin a bhotúna Genitive botúin botún Dative botún botúin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an botún na botúin Genitive an bhotúin na mbotún Dative leis an mbotún don bhotún leis na botúin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
botún	bhotún	mbotún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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