buachaill.
boy; young, unmarried man
Meaning & usage
boy; young, unmarried man
boyfriend
herdsman
servant, male employee
lad, boyo
useful thing (referring to a masculine noun)
Is é an rinse an buachaill chun na hoibre.
Where this word comes from
From Old Irish búachaill (“cowherd”), from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷelh₁- (“to revolve, turn around”). Cognates include Breton bugel (“child”), Welsh bugail (“shepherd”), and Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”).
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