"bu" meaning in Welsh

See bu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bɨː/ [North-Wales], /biː/ [South-Wales] Forms: buaid [plural], buon [plural], buyn [diminutive], buw [alternative], biw [alternative]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle Welsh bu, from Proto-Brythonic *bʉ. Etymology templates: {{etymid|cy|cow}}, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|cy|wlm|bu|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle Welsh bu, {{inh+|cy|wlm|bu}} Inherited from Middle Welsh bu, {{inh|cy|cel-bry-pro|*bʉ}} Proto-Brythonic *bʉ Head templates: {{cy-noun|f|buaid|dim=buyn|pl2=buon}} bu f (plural buaid or buon, diminutive buyn)
  1. cow, ox Tags: feminine Synonyms: buwch, ych
    Sense id: en-bu-cy-noun-3Wf7NqzL Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 37 18 45
  2. head (of cattle) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bu-cy-noun-oTriLaV~ Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 37 18 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bufil (english: bovid), buladd (english: cowbane), bulwg (english: corn cockle)
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /bɨː/ [North-Wales], /biː/ [South-Wales] Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], bu [error-unrecognized-form], fu [soft], mu [error-unrecognized-form]
Head templates: {{cy-verb form}} bu Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}}
  1. third-person singular preterite of bod Tags: form-of, preterite, singular, third-person Form of: bod
    Sense id: en-bu-cy-verb-K9Ie0s5z Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 37 18 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "bovid",
      "translation": "bovid",
      "word": "bufil"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cowbane",
      "translation": "cowbane",
      "word": "buladd"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "corn cockle",
      "translation": "corn cockle",
      "word": "bulwg"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "cow"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "wlm",
        "3": "bu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Welsh bu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "wlm",
        "3": "bu"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle Welsh bu",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "cel-bry-pro",
        "3": "*bʉ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *bʉ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle Welsh bu, from Proto-Brythonic *bʉ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buaid",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buon",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buyn",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buw",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biw",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "buaid",
        "dim": "buyn",
        "pl2": "buon"
      },
      "expansion": "bu f (plural buaid or buon, diminutive buyn)",
      "name": "cy-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 18 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cow, ox"
      ],
      "id": "en-bu-cy-noun-3Wf7NqzL",
      "links": [
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ],
        [
          "ox",
          "ox"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buwch"
        },
        {
          "word": "ych"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 18 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "head (of cattle)"
      ],
      "id": "en-bu-cy-noun-oTriLaV~",
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɨː/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biː/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bu"
}

{
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cy-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "soft"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bu",
      "name": "cy-verb form"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "cy-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 18 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "bod"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular preterite of bod"
      ],
      "id": "en-bu-cy-verb-K9Ie0s5z",
      "links": [
        [
          "bod",
          "bod#Welsh"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɨː/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biː/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bu"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 67 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Welsh countable nouns",
    "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
    "Welsh feminine nouns",
    "Welsh lemmas",
    "Welsh non-lemma forms",
    "Welsh nouns",
    "Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Welsh terms derived from Middle Welsh",
    "Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic",
    "Welsh terms inherited from Middle Welsh",
    "Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic",
    "Welsh verb forms",
    "zom:Foods"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "bovid",
      "translation": "bovid",
      "word": "bufil"
    },
    {
      "english": "cowbane",
      "translation": "cowbane",
      "word": "buladd"
    },
    {
      "english": "corn cockle",
      "translation": "corn cockle",
      "word": "bulwg"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "cow"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "wlm",
        "3": "bu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Welsh bu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "wlm",
        "3": "bu"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle Welsh bu",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "cel-bry-pro",
        "3": "*bʉ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *bʉ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle Welsh bu, from Proto-Brythonic *bʉ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buaid",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buon",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buyn",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buw",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biw",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "buaid",
        "dim": "buyn",
        "pl2": "buon"
      },
      "expansion": "bu f (plural buaid or buon, diminutive buyn)",
      "name": "cy-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "cow, ox"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ],
        [
          "ox",
          "ox"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buwch"
        },
        {
          "word": "ych"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "head (of cattle)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɨː/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biː/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bu"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 67 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
    "Welsh non-lemma forms",
    "Welsh verb forms",
    "zom:Foods"
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cy-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "soft"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bu",
      "name": "cy-verb form"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "cy-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "bod"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular preterite of bod"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bod",
          "bod#Welsh"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɨː/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biː/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bu"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bu meaning in Welsh (3.3kB)

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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bu/Welsh 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "bu"
  ],
  "section": "Welsh",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "bu",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bu/Welsh 'nasal' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
  "path": [
    "bu"
  ],
  "section": "Welsh",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "bu",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: bu/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
  "path": [
    "bu"
  ],
  "section": "Welsh",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "bu",
  "trace": ""
}

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