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beithe

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *betuyā

Noun

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beithe m (genitive beithi, nominative plural beithi)

  1. birch tree, birchwood
  2. the letter B of the Ogham alphabet
Inflection
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Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative beithe beitheL beithiL
Vocative beithi beitheL beithiu
Accusative beitheN beitheL beithiuH
Genitive beithiL beitheL beitheN
Dative beithiuL beithib beithib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
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  • Middle Irish: beith f

Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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beithe

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive absolute of at·tá

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
beithe beithe
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbeithe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Beithean.

Etymology

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From Middle Irish beith, from Old Irish beithe. Cognates include Irish beith and Manx beih.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpehə/
  • Hyphenation: bei‧the

Noun

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beithe f

  1. birch

Declension

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Declension of beithe (class IId feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative beithe beithean
Genitive beithe bheithean
Dative beithe beithean; beithibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (a') bheithe (na) beithean
Genitive (na) beithe (nam) beithean
Dative (a') bheithe (na) beithean; beithibh✝
Vocative bheithe bheithean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Mutation

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Mutation of beithe
radical lenition
beithe bheithe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • Colin Mark (2003) “beithe”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 71
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