bás

bás

1. accusative/genitive singular of básur

From Old Norse báss, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz.

bás m (genitive singular báss, nominative plural básar)

1. pen, fold (enclosure for cattle)
2. booth (seating area)
3. stall (at a market)

• “bás” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Middle Irish bás, from Old Irish bás,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bāstom, bāssom, from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”) or *(s)gʷes- (“to extinguish”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑːsˠ/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠaːsˠ/

bás m (genitive singular báis, nominative plural básanna)

1. death

   Nuair a thiocfas an bás ní imeoidh sé folamh. (proverb)

   When death comes he won’t leave empty-handed.

   Níl neart ar an mbás (ach pósadh arís). (proverb)

   There is no cure for death (but to marry again).

• faigh bás (“die”, verb, literally “find death”)
• caidhp bháis

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish bás, from Proto-Celtic *bāstom, bāssom, from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”) or *(s)gʷes- (“to extinguish”).

• IPA^(key): /baːs/

bás m

1. death

• úathbás (“horror”)

• Irish: bás
• Manx: baase
• Scottish Gaelic: bàs

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *bāstom, bāssom, from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”) or *(s)gʷes- (“to extinguish”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /baːs/

bás n

1. verbal noun of baïd (“to die”): death
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73^d7

     Ná eiplet húan bás coitchen húa n‑epil cách, acht foircniter húa sain-bás sech cách.

     Let them not die by the common death by which everyone dies, but let them be ended by a special death different from everyone.

• Middle Irish: bás
  • Irish: bás
  • Manx: baase
  • Scottish Gaelic: bàs

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -as, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃ, (Brazil) -ajs, (Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Hyphenation: bás

bás

1. plural of bá

From Proto-Algic *mehše. Cognates include Yurok mech and Ojibwe mishi.

• IPA^(key): /βás/
• Hyphenation: bás

bás

1. fire

• Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 48