"bos" meaning in Irish

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbˠɞsˠ/ [Ulster], /ˈbˠɔsˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|sga|bas|id=palm}} Old Irish bas, {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*bostā|t=palm, fist}} Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”), {{cog|br|boz|t=hollow of the hand}} Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), {{inh|ga|ine-pro|*gʷosto-}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto- Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|boise|||||||nominative plural|bosa|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa), {{ga-noun|f|boise|~a}} bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: boise [genitive, singular], bosa [nominative, plural], declension-2 [table-tags], no-table-tags [table-tags], bos [indefinite, nominative, singular], bosa [indefinite, nominative, plural], a bhos [indefinite, singular, vocative], a bhosa [indefinite, plural, vocative], boise [genitive, indefinite, singular], bos [genitive, indefinite, plural], bois [dative, indefinite, singular], bosa [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an bhos [definite, nominative, singular], na bosa [definite, nominative, plural], na boise [definite, genitive, singular], na mbos [definite, genitive, plural], leis an mbois [dative, definite, singular], don bhois [dative, definite, singular], leis na bosa [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], bos [error-unrecognized-form], bhos [lenition], mbos [eclipsis], bas [alternative]
  1. (anatomy) palm of the hand Tags: feminine Synonyms: dearna
    Sense id: en-bos-ga-noun-sYxgb~Nq Categories (other): Anatomy Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. (hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bos-ga-noun-zmoZYEaR Categories (other): Hurling, Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: boiseog

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "boiseog"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "baush"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bash"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "bas",
        "id": "palm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish bas",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*bostā",
        "t": "palm, fist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "boz",
        "t": "hollow of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷosto-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boise",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "declension-2",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-box-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boise",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na boise",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mbos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bas",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "bosa",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "boise",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "boise",
        "3": "~a"
      },
      "expansion": "bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "ga:Anatomy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "palm of the hand"
      ],
      "id": "en-bos-ga-noun-sYxgb~Nq",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "palm",
          "palm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) palm of the hand"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dearna"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Hurling",
          "orig": "ga:Hurling",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the flattened, curved end of a hurley"
      ],
      "id": "en-bos-ga-noun-zmoZYEaR",
      "links": [
        [
          "hurling",
          "hurling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hurley",
          "hurley"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "hurling",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɞsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɔsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bos"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Pages with 33 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "boiseog"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "baush"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "bash"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "bas",
        "id": "palm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish bas",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*bostā",
        "t": "palm, fist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "boz",
        "t": "hollow of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷosto-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”), from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boise",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "declension-2",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-box-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "boise",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "inflection-table-top",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na boise",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mbos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhois",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na bosa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbos",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bas",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "bosa",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "boise",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "boise",
        "3": "~a"
      },
      "expansion": "bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "ga:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "palm of the hand"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "palm",
          "palm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) palm of the hand"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dearna"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ga:Hurling"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the flattened, curved end of a hurley"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hurling",
          "hurling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hurley",
          "hurley"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "hurling",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɞsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbˠɔsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bos"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bos meaning in Irish (5.0kB)

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  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 8"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 8"
}

{
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  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 25"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
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  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 25"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/328",
  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 21"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 21"
}

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bos/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "bos"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bos",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.