balg

See also: Balg

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑlx/

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• Hyphenation: balg
• Rhymes: -ɑlx

Noun

balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n)

1. leather bag
2. bellows
3. (falconry) fake bait for training birds
4. cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
5. (dialectal) belly
6. (obsolete) body

Derived terms

• (bellows): blaasbalg (“bellows”)
• (cover): vouwbalg
• (belly): balgpijn
• (body): wisselbalg

Descendants

• → French: blague, blaque (obsolete)
  • → Italian: blaga, → blague
  • → Polish: blaga

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal̪ˠak/

Noun

balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg)

1. (anatomy) abdomen, belly
2. bladder
3. blister
4. (dated) bag

Synonyms

• (belly): brù

Derived terms

• balg-abhrais m (“wool-bag; batch of wool”)
• balg-béice m (“fuzzball, sponge mushroom”)
• balg-bhonn m (“pneumatic tyre of a cycle”)
• balg-buachrach m (“mushroom”)
• balg-chasach (“bow-legged, bandy-legged”)
• balg-dhubh (“cloudy, dark, gloomy”)
• balg-dubh m (“large fuzzball”)
• balg-iongrach m (“abscess”)
• balg-meadhain m (“waist, belly”)
• balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m (“puffball”)
• balg-séididh m (“pair of bellows; puffball”)
• balg-shaighde m (“quiver”)
• balg-shùil f (“large prominent eye”)
• balg-solair m (“magazine”)
• balg-thional m (“wallet”)
• balgaich (“belly out, as a sail; stow in a bag or satchel; puff, blister, swell”)

 

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bolg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language