Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

beuch

  1. dative singular of bech

Mutation edit

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

Scots edit

Etymology edit

From Old English bōh.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

beuch (plural beuchs)

  1. branch (of a tree), bough
    • c. 1495, William Dunbar, The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo:
      ane bird, on ane bransche, so birst out hir notis, / That never ane blythfullar bird was on the beuche harde [...].
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. limb (of an animal)