different between beach vs mitch

English

Etymology

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?og- (“flowing water”).

Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bit??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?
• Homophone: beech

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap

Synonyms

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Zulu: ibhishi

Translations

Verb

beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]

     When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]

     It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

   • 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,

     Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

     and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

Synonyms

• strand

Derived terms

• unbeached

Translations

Anagrams

• Bache, bache

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English beach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bit?/

Noun

beach m (plural beachs)

1. (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
   • 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:

     C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.

   • 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:

     Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oyk- (compare Czech v?ela, Latin f?cus), enlargement of *b?ey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ax/

Noun

beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)

1. bee (insect)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "beach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oik-, enlargement of *b??-, *b?ei-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?x/

Noun

beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)

1. bee
2. beehive
3. wasp

Synonyms

• seillean (“bee”)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “beach” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 31
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

English

Alternative forms

• mich, mych, myche, meech, meach
• miche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *my??an (“to steal”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjan? (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)m?g- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

mitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):

     "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
     "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."

   John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

4. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
5. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.

Synonyms

(play truant):

• bunk off
• skive

Derived terms

• mitcher
• mitchery
• mitching

Translations