búar

See also: buar and büar

Middle Irish

Noun

búar n

1. (medicine) diarrhœa

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• buinne, buinnech, díarria, lir

Descendants

• Irish: buar

Mutation

Mutation of búar

radical	lenition	nasalization
búar	búar pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbúar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 búar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From bó (“cow”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

búar n

1. (agriculture) cows, cattle, herd(s)

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	búarN	—	—
Vocative	búarN	—	—
Accusative	búarN	—	—
Genitive	búairL	—	—
Dative	búarL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• búar-brat (“cattle-spoils”)
• búarach¹ (“spancel for cows at milking-time; milking-time, early morning”)
• búarach² (“owner of cows”)

Descendants

• Irish: buar

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language