baithis

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old Irish baithis, baithes, bathais (“baptism, (by association) crown of the head”) (compare Scottish Gaelic bathais), from Latin baptisma, ultimately from Ancient Greek βάπτισμα (báptisma).

Noun

baithis f (genitive singular baithise, nominative plural baithisí)

  1. (anatomy) top, crown (of head)
  2. (anatomy) forehead
    Synonyms: clár baithise, clár éadain, éadan

Declension
Declension of baithis

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative baithis baithisí
Vocative a bhaithis a bhaithisí
Genitive baithise baithisí
Dative baithis baithisí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhaithis na baithisí
Genitive na baithise na mbaithisí
Dative leis an mbaithis

don bhaithis

 leis na baithisí

Derived terms
  • buarach bhaithise (“strip of dead person's skin used in witchcraft”)
  • clár baithise (“forehead”)
  • cró na baithise (“fontanelle”)
  • logán na baithise (“fontanelle”)
  • loigín na baithise (“fontanelle”)
  • screaball baithise (“baptismal offering”)
  • tobar na baithise (“fontanelle”)

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

References
  1. de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1953) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 1st edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 520 (p. 276) and p. 304

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