búachaill

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === bóchaill === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos (compare Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos)), from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, move around, sojourn”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbuːa̯.xəl̠ʲ/ (Blasse) [ˈbuːa̯.xɪl̠ʲ] (Griffith) [ˈbuːa̯.xɨl̠ʲ] === Noun === búachaill m cowherd herdsman ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: buachaill Manx: bochilley Scottish Gaelic: buachaill, buachaille === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “búachaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language