beachaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bechaire. By surface analysis, beach (“bee”) +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲaxəɾʲə/

Noun

beachaire m (genitive singular beachaire, nominative plural beachairí)

1. beekeeper
2. beehive

Declension

Declension of beachaire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative beachaire beachairí vocative a bheachaire a bheachairí genitive beachaire beachairí dative beachaire beachairí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an beachaire na beachairí genitive an bheachaire na mbeachairí dative leis an mbeachaire don bheachaire leis na beachairí

Derived terms

• beachaireacht f (“beekeeping, apiculture”)

Related terms

• beachadóireacht f (“beekeeping, apiculture”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of beachaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
beachaire	bheachaire	mbeachaire

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beachaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bechaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language