beach

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English

Etymology

From Old English bæce, bece (“stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

  1. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
    • 1988 Robert Ferro, Second Son:
      Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.

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Verb

to beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

  1. To run (something) aground on a beach.

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Translations

run something aground on a beach
  • Spanish: varar es(es)
  • Swedish: stranda
  • Ukrainian: посадити на мілину uk(uk) (posadýty na milynú), направляти на берег uk(uk) (napravljáty na béreh), битягати на берег uk(uk) (vytjaháty na béreh)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko- (compare Welsh beg-egyr (“hornet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhei- (compare English bee).

Pronunciation

Noun

beach f.

  1. a bee

Declension

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative beach beacha
Vocative a bheach a bheacha
Genitive beiche beach
Dative beach beacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bheach na beacha
Genitive na beiche na mbeach
Dative leis an mbeach

don bheach

 leis na beacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
beach bheach mbeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

 

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