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béal

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See also: beal and Beal

French

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Noun

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béal m (plural béals)

  1. (southern France) small irrigation canal

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish bél[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic beul, Manx beeal), possibly from Proto-Celtic *weblos (compare Welsh gwefl (animal lip), Cornish gwevel).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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béal m (genitive singular béil, nominative plural béil)

  1. mouth (of the face, etc.)
  2. opening
  3. edge (of knife)
  4. muzzle (of weapon)

Declension

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Declension of béal (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative béal béil
vocative a bhéil a bhéala
genitive béil béal
dative béal béil
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an béal na béil
genitive an bhéil na mbéal
dative leis an mbéal
don bhéal
leis na béil
  • Alternate plural used in certain phrases: béala

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of béal
radical lenition eclipsis
béal bhéal mbéal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 42
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 158, page 61

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