bealach

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English

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Etymology

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From Irish bealach.

Noun

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bealach (plural bealachs)

  1. (Ireland) A mountain pass.
    • 2018, Cameron McNeish, There's Always The Hills:
      These scoured-out basins form the grain of the land but excellent tracks weave their way through glens and up over the bealachs at their heads, giving good access to the summits, and what summits they are.

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish belach (gap, pass, road, path),[1] perhaps from Proto-Celtic *bolko-, from Proto-Indo-European *bel- (to dig, cut off?), and possibly cognate with Welsh bwlch (gap, pass), Old Armenian պեղեմ (pełem, to dig, hollow), and Sanskrit बिल (bila, hole, pit).[2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bealach m (genitive singular bealaigh, nominative plural bealaí)

  1. way
  2. road
    Synonyms: bóthar, ród
  3. route
    Synonyms: caoi, slí
  4. passage, thoroughfare
  5. direction
  6. journey
  7. manner, method
    Synonyms: bóthar, modh
  8. (broadcasting) channel
    Synonym: cainéal

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bealach bhealach mbealach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “belach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, pages 264–265
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 96
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 37
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 330, page 114

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish belach (gap, pass, road, path).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bealach m (genitive singular bealaich, plural bealaichean)

  1. defile, passage, pass or gorge of a mountain, glen
  2. gap, breach (in a wall or fence)
  3. gateway, gate
  4. road

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
bealach bhealach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bealach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “belach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language