beeal

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bél (compare Scottish Gaelic beul, Irish béal), possibly from Proto-Celtic *weblos (compare Welsh gwefl (“animal lip”), Cornish gwevel).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

beeal m (genitive singular beill or beealloo, plural beill)

  1. (anatomy) mouth
  2. muzzle
  3. flue
  4. outlet
  5. orifice
  6. crater
  7. rim
  8. approach
  9. passage

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of beeal
radical lenition eclipsis
beeal veeal meeal

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
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