buí

See also: bui, Bui, BUI, bùi, Bùi, búi, Búi, bụi, and buì

Irish

Alternative forms

• buidhe (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish buide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠiː/, [bˠwiː]
• (Ulster, also) IPA^(key): /bˠiə/ (corresponding to the superseded spelling buidhe)
• Homophone: baoth (Connacht)

Adjective

buí (comparative buí or buíocha)

1. yellow (having yellow as its colour)
2. (by extension, of skin) sallow, jaundiced

   Más peaca a bheith buí tá na mílte damanta.

   Beauty is only skin deep.

   (literally, “If it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned.”)

3. tan

Declension

Declension of buí

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	buí	bhuí	buí; bhuí²
Vocative	bhuí		buí
Genitive		buí	buí	buí
Dative	buí; bhuí¹	bhuí	buí; bhuí²
Comparative	níos buí
Superlative	is buí

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

• Alternative comparative form: buíocha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

• arán buí
• barrbhuí
• buíbhallach (“spotted with yellow”)
• buíbhán (“light yellow; cream-coloured”)
• buíbhreac (“speckled with yellow”)
• buídhearg (“yellowish-red”)
• buídhonn
• buígh (“yellow, tan”)
• buíliath
• buíocán
• buíocht (“yellowness; sallowness”)
• ceannbhuí
• cróchbhuí (“saffron yellow”)
• donnbhuí
• dúbhuí (“dark yellow”)
• Fear Buí (“Orangeman”)
• flannbhuí
• geansaí buí (“yellow jersey”)
• gine buí (“yellow, golden, guinea”)
• grán buí
• gruth buí
• iasc buí (“dried fish”)
• leathbhuí
• ór buí (“yellow gold”)
• órbhuí (“golden-coloured”)
• osbhuí
• scothbhuí
• seabhac buí
• solas buí gréine (“golden sunlight”)

 

Noun

buí m (genitive singular buí, nominative plural buíonna)

1. yellow (colour)
2. yellow fever

Declension

Declension of buí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative buí buíonna Vocative a bhuí a bhuíonna Genitive buí buíonna Dative buí buíonna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an buí na buíonna Genitive an bhuí na mbuíonna Dative leis an mbuí don bhuí leis na buíonna

Derived terms

• buí cumhra (“mignonette”)
• buí mór (“dyer's rocket”)
• buí na mbáb (“spurge”)
• buí na n-iníon (“spurge”)
• osbhuí (“fawn”)

 

Descendants

• → Yola: buee

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buí	bhuí	mbuí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “buí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
• “buí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46