balg

See also: Balg

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑlx/

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• Hyphenation: balg
• Rhymes: -ɑlx

Noun

balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n)

1. leather bag
2. bellows
3. (falconry) fake bait for training birds
4. cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
5. (dialectal) belly

Derived terms

• (bellows): blaasbalg (bellows)
• (cover): vouwbalg
• (belly): balgpijn

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Noun

balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg)

1. (anatomy) abdomen, belly
2. bladder
3. blister
4. (dated) bag

Synonyms

• (belly): brù

Derived terms

• balg-abhrais m (“wool-bag; batch of wool”)
• balg-béice m (“fuzzball, sponge mushroom”)
• balg-bhonn m (“pneumatic tyre of a cycle”)
• balg-buachrach m (“mushroom”)
• balg-chasach (“bow-legged, bandy-legged”)
• balg-dhubh (“cloudy, dark, gloomy”)
• balg-dubh m (“large fuzzball”)
• balg-iongrach m (“abscess”)
• balg-meadhain m (“waist, belly”)
• balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m (“puffball”)
• balg-séididh m (“pair of bellows; puffball”)
• balg-shaighde m (“quiver”)
• balg-shùil f (“large prominent eye”)
• balg-solair m (“magazine”)
• balg-thional m (“wallet”)
• balgaich (“belly out, as a sail; stow in a bag or satchel; puff, blister, swell”)

 

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bolg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language