béas

See also: beas

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: béa, béât

Verb

béas

1. second-person singular past historic of béer

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bʲiːa̯sˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲeːsˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bés, from Proto-Celtic *banssus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-.

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. habit, wont
2. moral habit
3. (in the plural) conduct, manners

Declension

Declension of béas

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative béas béasa Vocative a bhéas a bhéasa Genitive béasa béas Dative béas béasa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an béas na béasa Genitive an bhéasa na mbéas Dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Synonyms

• (manners): béascna

Derived terms

• ainbhéas
• béasach
• béasaíocht
• béascna
• dea-bhéas
• drochbhéas

 

Etymology 2

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. customary tax
2. dues, cess

Declension

Declension of béas

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative béas béasa Vocative a bhéas a bhéasa Genitive béasa béas Dative béas béasa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an béas na béasa Genitive an bhéasa na mbéas Dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Etymology 3

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. beige

Declension

Declension of béas

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative béas béasa Vocative a bhéas a bhéasa Genitive béasa béas Dative béas béasa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an béas na béasa Genitive an bhéasa na mbéas Dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Synonyms

• dath béis

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
béas	bhéas	mbéas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.