beach

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Stinson Beach, in California.

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From Middle English bache, bæcche (bank, sandbank), from Old English bæċe, beċe (beck, brook, stream), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (brook), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (flowing water). Cognate with Dutch beek (brook, stream), German Bach (brook, stream), Swedish bäck (stream, brook, creek). More at batch, beck.

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beach (plural beaches)

  1. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
  2. That part of the shore of the sea or of a lake which is washed by the tide and waves; the strand.
  3. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
    • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
      Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
  4. (figuratively) A carefree time, something easy and relaxing.
    Life's a beach!

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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, from Proto-Celtic *beko- (compare Welsh beg-egyr (hornet)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhei- (compare English bee).

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beach f.

  1. bee (insect)

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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.

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