beathach
Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beathach
- Only used in beo beathach (“alive and kicking”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beathach m (genitive singular beathaigh, nominative plural beathaigh)
Declension
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References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 10
Etymology 3
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beathach (genitive singular masculine beathaigh, genitive singular feminine beathaí, plural beathacha, not comparable)
- Alternative form of beitheach (“planted with birches”)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | beathach | bheathach | beathacha; bheathacha2 | |
vocative | bheathaigh | beathacha | ||
genitive | beathaí | beathacha | beathach | |
dative | beathach; bheathach1 |
bheathach; bheathaigh (archaic) |
beathacha; bheathacha2 | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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beathach | bheathach | mbeathach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish bethach, a variant of bethadach (“animal; creature”) (whence Irish beithíoch), from bethu, Middle Irish betha (“life”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈb̥ehəx/[1]
- (North Uist) IPA(key): /ˈb̥eo.əx/[2](corresponding to the form beothach)
- (South Uist) IPA(key): /ˈb̥ɛo.əx/, /ˈb̥ɛohəx/[3] (corresponding to the form beothach)
- (Barra, Tiree) IPA(key): /ˈb̥ehux/[4]
- (Mull) IPA(key): [ˈb̥e.ux]
- (Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈb̥ehɔx/, /ˈb̥ehux/[5]
Noun
[edit]beathach m (genitive singular beathaich, plural beathaichean)
Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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beathach | bheathach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bethach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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