beas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bés (“habit, custom, usual procedure, practice; manner, way; morals, good behaviour”).

Noun

beas m (genitive beasa, nominative plural beasa)

1. habit
2. moral habit

Declension

Declension of beas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative beas beasa Vocative a bheasa a bheasa Genitive beasa beas Dative beas beasa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an beas na beasa Genitive an bheasa na mbeas Dative leis an mbeas don bheas leis na beasa

Derived terms

• beasa (“conduct, manners”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beas	bheas	mbeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin

Verb

beās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of beō