buíochas

Irish

Alternative forms

buidheachas (archaic)
baochas (Munster)

Etymology

From Old Irish buídechus (compare Scottish Gaelic buidheachas); synchronically, buíoch +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠeːxəsˠ/
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠiːxəsˠ/, /ˈbˠiəxəsˠ/

Noun

buíochas m (genitive singular buíochais)

thanks, gratitude
Tá buíochas agam ort.
I am grateful to you.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 61:
  fuəŕədr̥ bŭīxəs mōr ō n ńūšcīš fȳ n īnəšə jīŕəx, ə rińə šiəd.
  
  Fuaradar buíochas mór ón ngiúistís faoin fhianaise dhíreach a rinne siad. (conventional orthography)
  They got great thanks from the magistrate for the straightforward testimony they gave.

Declension

Declension of buíochas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	buíochas
Vocative	a bhuíochais
Genitive	buíochais
Dative	buíochas

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an buíochas
Genitive	an bhuíochais
Dative	leis an mbuíochas don bhuíochas

Derived terms

buíochasaigh (“thank”, transitive verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
buíochas	bhuíochas	mbuíochas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 61
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “buíochas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “buīdechus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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