bunaosta

Irish

Etymology

From bunaois (“fairly advanced age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or bun- (“basic, primary, elementary; medium; fairly old”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

bunaosta

fairly old; (of person) middle-aged

Synonyms

(fairly old): breacaosta, scothaosta
(middle-aged): meánaosta

Related terms

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
bunbhean f (“middle-aged woman”)
bunfhear m (“middle-aged man”)
cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bunaosta	bhunaosta	mbunaosta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"bunaosta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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