babaí

Irish

Etymology

From dialectal English babby, babbie. [from 20th c.]

Replaced the now obsolete báibín, diminutive of báb, which is also from Middle English babe.

Noun

babaí m (genitive singular babaí, nominative plural babaithe)

  1. baby (infant)
    Synonym: leanbh

Declension
Declension of babaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative babaí babaithe
Vocative a bhabaí a bhabaithe
Genitive babaí babaithe
Dative babaí babaithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an babaí na babaithe
Genitive an bhabaí na mbabaithe
Dative leis an mbabaí

don bhabaí

 leis na babaithe

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
babaí bhabaí mbabaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “babaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “babaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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