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buanfasach

Irish

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Etymology

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From buanfas (“durability”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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buanfasach (genitive singular masculine buanfasaigh, genitive singular feminine buanfasaí, plural buanfasacha, comparative buanfasaí)

  1. durable, hard-wearing

Declension

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Declension of buanfasach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative buanfasach bhuanfasach buanfasacha;
bhuanfasacha²
Vocative bhuanfasaigh buanfasacha
Genitive buanfasaí buanfasacha buanfasach
Dative buanfasach;
bhuanfasach¹ 		bhuanfasach;
bhuanfasaigh (archaic) 		buanfasacha;
bhuanfasacha²
Comparative níos buanfasaí
Superlative is buanfasaí

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

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buanfasach bhuanfasach mbuanfasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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