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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Homophones

Noun

Singular beach

Plural beaches

beach (plural beaches)

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

Synonyms

Antonyms

Verb

Infinitive to beach

Third person singular beaches

Simple past beached

Past participle beached

Present participle beaching

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.

Synonyms

Translations

run something aground on a beach
  • Bulgarian: засядам bg(bg)
  • Dutch: stranden nl(nl)
  • German: stranden de(de)
  • 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 < Proto-Celtic *beko- (cf. Welsh beg-egyr (“‘hornet’”)) < Proto-Indo-European *bhei- (cf. 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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