beuch

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Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

beuch

  1. dative singular of bech

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
beuch beuch
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbeuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old English bōh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

beuch (plural beuchs)

  1. branch (of a tree), bough
    • c. 1495, William Dunbar, The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo:
      ane bird, on ane bransche, so birst out hir notis, / That never ane blythfullar bird was on the beuche harde [...].
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. limb (of an animal)