From Old Irish bechaire. By surface analysis, beach (“bee”) + -aire.
beachaire m (genitive singular beachaire, nominative plural beachairí)
- beekeeper
- beehive
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beachaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bechaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language