butha

See also: bùtha and buþa

Irish

Noun

butha m (genitive singular butha, nominative plural buthanna)

1. Alternative form of bú (“hyacinth”)

Declension

Declension of butha

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative butha buthanna Vocative a bhutha a bhuthanna Genitive butha buthanna Dative butha buthanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an butha na buthanna Genitive an bhutha na mbuthanna Dative leis an mbutha don bhutha leis na buthanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
butha	bhutha	mbutha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βuða/

Verb

butha (infinitive kũbutha)

1. to be rotten

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• ũbuthu class 14

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “butha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Northern Ndebele

Verb

-butha^?

1. to collect

Inflection

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Xhosa

Verb

-butha^?

1. to collect up

Inflection

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