beach
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Pagudpud_Beach.jpg/220px-Pagudpud_Beach.jpg)
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: beech
Noun
beach (plural beaches)
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
- Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
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- (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
- When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
- (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
- It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.
- 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,
- Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
- and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
- (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
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French
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Noun
beach m (plural beachs)
- (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
- C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.
- 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:
- Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoyk- (compare Czech včela, Latin fūcus), enlargement of *bʰey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).
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Noun
beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)
- bee (insect)
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beach | bheach | mbeach |
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
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Bee on flower
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoik-, enlargement of *bʰī-, *bʰei-.
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Noun
beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)
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- seillean (“bee”)
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beach | bheach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “beach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[4], Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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