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botach

botach

Old Irish

Noun

botach m

serf
rustic, peasant

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

(rustic): túathannach

Derived terms

Terms derived from botach

botachamlacht ‎(“boorishness, churlishness”)

botachán ‎(“rustic”)

Descendants

Irish: bodach
Scottish Gaelic: bodach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
botach	botach pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbotach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“botach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.