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borbaigh
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Irish
Alternative forms
- borb (verb)
Etymology
From Old Irish borbaigid (“acts rudely, harshly”, verb), from borb (adjective). By surface analysis, borb (“fierce, violent; rude; coarse, strong, pungent; rank”) + -igh (verbal suffix).
Verb
borbaigh (present analytic borbaíonn, future analytic borbóidh, verbal noun borbú, past participle borbaithe)
- (intransitive) to get angry, rude
Conjugation
conjugation of borbaigh (second conjugation)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “borbaigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “borbaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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