béas

See also: beas, Beas, and beás

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: béa, béât

Verb

béas

1. second-person singular past historic of béer

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bʲiːa̯sˠ/^[1]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲeːsˠ/^[2]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bés, from Proto-Celtic *banssus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-.

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. habit, wont
2. moral habit
3. (in the plural) conduct, manners

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Synonyms

• (manners): béascna

Derived terms

• ainbhéas
• béasach (“well-mannered, lady-like, girl; well-behaved, polite”)
• béasaíocht
• béascna
• dea-bhéas (“good habit; (in plural) good conduct, good manners”)
• drochbhéas (“bad habit; immoral habit, vice”)

Etymology 2

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. customary tax
2. dues, cess

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Etymology 3

Noun

béas m (genitive singular béasa, nominative plural béasa)

1. beige

Declension

Declension of béas (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative béas béasa vocative a bhéas a bhéasa genitive béasa béas dative béas béasa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an béas na béasa genitive an bhéasa na mbéas dative leis an mbéas don bhéas leis na béasa

Mutation

Mutated forms of béas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
béas	bhéas	mbéas

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. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 350, page 120