beachaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bechaire. By surface analysis, beach (“bee”) +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲaxəɾʲə/

Noun

beachaire m (genitive singular beachaire, nominative plural beachairí)

1. beekeeper
2. beehive

Declension

Declension of beachaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative beachaire beachairí Vocative a bheachaire a bheachairí Genitive beachaire beachairí Dative beachaire beachairí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an beachaire na beachairí Genitive an bheachaire na mbeachairí Dative leis an mbeachaire don bheachaire leis na beachairí

Derived terms

• beachaireacht f (“beekeeping, apiculture”)

Related terms

• beachadóireacht f (“beekeeping, apiculture”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beachaire	bheachaire	mbeachaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beachaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bechaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language