biseach

Irish

From Middle Irish bisech (“increase, addition”), from Old Irish bisex (“bissextile”), from Latin bisextus (“intercalary day”).

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biseach m (genitive singular bisigh)

intercalary day or year
increase, addition
improvement (especially with regard to health), recovery, recuperation
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Bliadhain ’na dhiaidh sin, thug an rí fá deara an tromas a bhí ag éirghe innti, acht leig sise uirri gur bh’é an biadh maith a bhí sí ag fagháil a bhí ag cur an bhisigh sin uirri.
  A year after that, the king noticed how bulky she was growing, but she pretended that it was the good treatment she was getting that was putting that improvement on her.
Tá biseach mór air. ― He’s much better [after an illness]. (literally, “A great recovery is on him.”)

Declension of biseach

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	an biseach
Genitive	an bhisigh
Dative	leis an mbiseach don bhiseach

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
biseach	bhiseach	mbiseach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “biseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bisech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bisex”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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