beach ghabhair

Irish

Etymology

Literally, “goat bee”.

Noun

beach ghabhair f (genitive singular beiche gabhair, nominative plural beacha gabhair)

1. wasp

   Synonym: foiche

Mutation

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

Further reading

• “beach ghabhair”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “beaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beach ghabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN