béile
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle English mel, From Old English mǣl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą. The m was changed to b as a back-formation from the mutated forms, where *méile and *mhéile were reinterpreted as mbéile and bhéile.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]béile m (genitive singular béile, nominative plural béilí)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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béile | bhéile | mbéile |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “béile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “meal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 73