beach

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Stinson Beach, in California.

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From Old English bæce, bece (stream), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz

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Singular
beach

Plural
beaches

beach (plural beaches)

  1. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
    1988: “Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.” - Second Son, Robert Ferro

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Infinitive
to beach

Third person singular
beaches

Simple past
beached

Past participle
beached

Present participle
beaching

to beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

  1. To run (something) aground on a beach.

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From Old Irish bech < Proto-Celtic *beko- (cf. Welsh beg-egyr (hornet)) < Proto-Indo-European *bhei- (cf. bee).

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beach f.

  1. a bee.

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Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative beach beacha
Vocative a bheach a bheacha
Genitive beiche beach
Dative beach beacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bheach na beacha
Genitive na beiche na mbeach
Dative leis an mbeach

don bheach

leis na beacha

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
beach bheach mbeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.