béal

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See also: beal and Beal

French

Noun

béal m (plural béals)

  1. (southern France) small irrigation canal

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bél (compare Scottish Gaelic beul, Manx beeal), from Proto-Celtic *wewlos (compare Welsh gwefl (“animal lip”), Cornish gwevel).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Aran" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bʲeːl/
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Noun

béal m (genitive singular béil, nominative plural béil)

  1. mouth (of the face, etc.)
  2. opening
  3. edge (of knife)
  4. muzzle (of weapon)

Declension

Declension of béal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative béal béil
Vocative a bhéil a bhéala
Genitive béil béal
Dative béal béil

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an béal na béil
Genitive an bhéil na mbéal
Dative leis an mbéal

don bhéal

leis na béil

  • Alternate plural used in certain phrases: béala

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
béal bhéal mbéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
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