buachaill

See also: búachaill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish búachaill (“cowherd”), from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, turn around”). Cognates include Breton bugel (“child”), Welsh bugail (“shepherd”), and Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbˠuəxɪlʲ/

Noun

buachaill m (genitive singular buachalla, nominative plural buachaillí)

  1. boy; young, unmarried man
    Synonym: garsún
  2. boyfriend
    Synonym: stócach
  3. herdsman
  4. servant, male employee
  5. lad, boyo
  6. useful thing (referring to a masculine noun)
    Is é an rinse an buachaill chun na hoibre.
    The wrench is the right tool for the job.

Declension
Declension of buachaill

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buachaill buachaillí
Vocative a bhuachaill a bhuachaillí
Genitive buachalla buachaillí
Dative buachaill buachaillí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an buachaill na buachaillí
Genitive an bhuachalla na mbuachaillí
Dative leis an mbuachaill

don bhuachaill

 leis na buachaillí

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
buachaill bhuachaill mbuachaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish búachaill (“cowherd”), from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos, from *gʷōus (“cow”) + *kʷel (“to revolve, move around, sojourn”).

Noun

buachaill m (genitive singular buachaille, plural buachaillean)

  1. cowherd
  2. herdsman, shepherd
  3. watch or protector of cattle of any kind
  4. youth

Derived terms
  • buachaill an sgadain m (“large ray or skate, northern chimaera”)
  • buachaill-bréige m (“rudely built monument on the crest of a hill”)
  • buachaill-chaorach m (“shepherd”)
  • buachaill-seòmair m (“valet-de-chambre”)
  • òran-buachaill m (“eclogue”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
buachaillbhuachaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “búachaill” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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