boim

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See also: böim

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish boim, from Old Irish boimm, from Proto-Celtic *buxsman, from either Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (to enjoy)[1] or *bʰewgʰ- (to bend).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boim m (genitive singular boma, nominative plural bomanna)

  1. (literary) piece, fragment

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
boim bhoim mboim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 69

Further reading

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Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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boim

  1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of boi