béal

See also: beal and Beal

French

Noun

béal m (plural béals)

  1. (southern France) small irrigation canal

Further reading

Anagrams


Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bél (compare Scottish Gaelic beul, Manx beeal), from Proto-Celtic *wewlos (compare Welsh gwefl (animal lip), Cornish gwevel).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

béal m (genitive singular béil, nominative plural béil)

  1. mouth (of the face, etc.)
  2. opening
  3. edge (of knife)
  4. muzzle (of weapon)

Declension

  • Alternate plural used in certain phrases: béala

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
béal bhéal mbéal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
  • "béal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • bél” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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