beathach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bethach, a variant of bethadach (“animal; creature”), from bethu, Middle Irish betha (“life”) + -ach.

Noun

beathach m (genitive singular beathaich, plural beathaichean)

1. beast, brute, animal

   Synonym: ainmhidh

Related terms

• beatha

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bethach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language