Thursday, June 20, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: beach

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# The [[shore]] of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

  

# The [[shore]] of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
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# A horizontal strip of land, usually [[sand]]y, adjoining [[water]].

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# {{rft-sense}} A horizontal strip of land, usually [[sand]]y, adjoining [[water]].
 

#* {{quote-book|year=1988|passage=Up and down, the '''beach''' lay empty for miles.|title=Second Son|author=Robert Ferro}}

  

#* {{quote-book|year=1988|passage=Up and down, the '''beach''' lay empty for miles.|title=Second Son|author=Robert Ferro}}
 

# {{context|UK|_|dialectal|Sussex|Kent|lang=en}} The loose [[pebble]]s of the [[seashore]], especially worn by waves; [[shingle]].

  

# {{context|UK|_|dialectal|Sussex|Kent|lang=en}} The loose [[pebble]]s of the [[seashore]], especially worn by waves; [[shingle]].

Latest revision as of 23:55, 20 June 2013

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English[edit]

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Wikipedia

Stinson Beach, in California.

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English bache, bæcche ("bank, sandbank"), from Old English bæċe, beċe ("beck, brook, stream"), 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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

beach (plural beaches)

  1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
  2. (Discuss(+) this sense) 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.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (shore, especially when sandy):
  • (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

sandy shore

Verb[edit]

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

  1. To run (something) aground on a beach.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

run something aground on a beach

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh begegyr, bygegyr 'drone'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik- ~ *bʰoik- (compare Czech včela, Latin fūcus), enlargement of *bʰī-, *bʰei- (compare Welsh bydaf 'beehive', English bee).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

beach f (genitive beiche, nominative plural beacha)

  1. bee (insect)

Declension[edit]

Declension of beach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative beach beacha
Vocative a bheach a bheacha
Genitive beiche beach
Dative beach beacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bheach na beacha
Genitive na beiche na mbeach
Dative leis an mbeach

don bheach

 leis na beacha

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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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