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beach

EnglishEdit

 
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Beach in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
 
Beach in Parga, Greece

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”).

Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

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NounEdit

beach (plural beaches)

  1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
  2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
    • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
      Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
  3. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
  4. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
  5. (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
    • 2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations (page 415)
      I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch
    • 2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets
      The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.

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  • → Japanese: ビーチ
  • → Punjabi: ਬੀਚ (bīc)
  • → Zulu: ibhishi

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VerbEdit

beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

  1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
      When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
  2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
  3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

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FrenchEdit

FWOTD – 6 June 2022

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English beach.

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NounEdit

beach m (plural beachs)

  1. (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
    • 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
      C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.
    • 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:
      Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoyk- (compare Czech včela, Latin fūcus), enlargement of *bʰey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).

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beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)

  1. bee (insect)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of beach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative beach beacha
Vocative a bheach a bheacha
Genitive beiche beach
Dative beach
beich (archaic, dialectal) 		beacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bheach na beacha
Genitive na beiche na mbeach
Dative leis an mbeach
leis an mbeich (archaic, dialectal)

don bheach
don bheich (archaic, dialectal)

leis na beacha

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MutationEdit

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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Scottish GaelicEdit

 
Beach air flùr
Bee on flower

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoik-, enlargement of *bʰī-, *bʰei-.

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NounEdit

beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)

  1. bee
  2. beehive
  3. wasp

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MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
beach bheach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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