bél

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bel"

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bellus.

Adjective

bél (feminine bèla, masculine plural béls, feminine plural bèles)

  1. beautiful

Derived terms

References

  • beau in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • bél in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bél⁠/, “waist”).[1] Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *pälɜ (“interior, inside”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

bél (plural belek)

  1. (anatomy) intestine, bowel
  2. kernel (of nut)
  3. flesh, pulp (fruit)
  4. the soft part of bread
  5. wick (candle)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative bél belek
accusative belet beleket
dative bélnek beleknek
instrumental béllel belekkel
causal-final bélért belekért
translative béllé belekké
terminative bélig belekig
essive-formal bélként belekként
essive-modal — —
inessive bélben belekben
superessive belen beleken
adessive bélnél beleknél
illative bélbe belekbe
sublative bélre belekre
allative bélhez belekhez
elative bélből belekből
delative bélről belekről
ablative béltől belektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bélé beleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		béléi belekéi
Possessive forms of bél
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. belem beleim
2nd person sing. beled beleid
3rd person sing. bele belei
1st person plural belünk beleink
2nd person plural beletek beleitek
3rd person plural belük beleik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

References

  1. ^ Turkic etymology in STARLING
  2. ^ Entry #724 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  3. ^ bél in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • bél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bél in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *weblos. Compare Welsh gwefl (“animal lip”), Cornish gwevel.

Pronunciation

Noun

bél m (genitive béoil or béuil, nominative plural béoil or béuil)

  1. lip
  2. (sometimes in the plural) mouth
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c23
      co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu
      so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with mouth and what I might think with heart might be different
  3. opening

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bél bélL béoilL, béuil
Vocative béoil, béuil bélL béoluH
Accusative bélN bélL béoluH
Genitive béoilL, béuil bél bélN
Dative béulL bélaib, bélib bélaib, bélib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: béal, beola
  • Manx: beeal
  • Scottish Gaelic: beul
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: bélbach

Mutation

Mutation of bél
radical lenition nasalization
bél bél
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbél

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References


Further reading

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