beach ghabhair

Irish

Etymology

Literally, “goat bee”.

Noun

beach ghabhair f (genitive singular beiche gabhair, nominative plural beacha gabhair)

1. wasp

   Synonym: foiche

Mutation

Mutated forms of beach ghabhair

radical	lenition	eclipsis
beach ghabhair	bheach ghabhair	mbeach ghabhair

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

Further reading

• “beach ghabhair”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “beaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beach ghabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN