beilt

beilt

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

beilt f (genitive singular beilte, nominative plural beilteanna)

  1. (clothing) belt (a band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing)
  2. belt (band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power)
  3. strap (long, narrow, pliable strip; strip of thick leather used in flogging)

Declension

Declension of beilt (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative beilt beilteanna
vocative a bheilt a bheilteanna
genitive beilte beilteanna
dative beilt beilteanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bheilt na beilteanna
genitive na beilte na mbeilteanna
dative leis an mbeilt
don bheilt 		leis na beilteanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • beilt tiomána (“driving band”)
  • giar beilte (“belt gear”)
  • roithleán beilte (“band pulley”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of beilt
radical lenition eclipsis
beilt bheilt mbeilt

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 33, page 28
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 240

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “beilt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “beilt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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