balg
See also: Balg
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n)
- leather bag
- bellows
- (falconry) fake bait for training birds
- cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses
- (dialectal) belly
- (obsolete) body
Derived terms edit
- (bellows): blaasbalg (“bellows”)
- (cover): vouwbalg
- (belly): balgpijn
- (body): wisselbalg
Descendants edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg)
Synonyms edit
- (belly): brù
Derived terms edit
- balg-abhrais m (“wool-bag; batch of wool”)
- balg-béice m (“fuzzball, sponge mushroom”)
- balg-bhonn m (“pneumatic tyre of a cycle”)
- balg-buachrach m (“mushroom”)
- balg-chasach (“bow-legged, bandy-legged”)
- balg-dhubh (“cloudy, dark, gloomy”)
- balg-dubh m (“large fuzzball”)
- balg-iongrach m (“abscess”)
- balg-meadhain m (“waist, belly”)
- balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m (“puffball”)
- balg-séididh m (“pair of bellows; puffball”)
- balg-shaighde m (“quiver”)
- balg-shùil f (“large prominent eye”)
- balg-solair m (“magazine”)
- balg-thional m (“wallet”)
- balgaich (“belly out, as a sail; stow in a bag or satchel; puff, blister, swell”)
References edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bolg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language