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beach
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)
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]
- (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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]
- (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)
- (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.
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:
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)
- 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)
- bee
- beehive
- 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
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raccoon
English
Alternative forms
- racoon [from 17th c.]
- rarowcun [17th c.]
- r'coon (colloquial contraction)
Etymology
From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkun?m (“he scratches with his hands”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???ku?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æ?kun/, /???kun/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
raccoon (plural raccoons)
- A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:
- The Rackoone is a deepe furred beast, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tower.
- 2010, Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian, 3 Apr 2010:
- Thus we're presented with […] a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
- Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
- Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
Synonyms
- (Procyon lotor): coon (colloquial), common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, trash panda
Derived terms
- coon
- coon dog
- coonhound
- Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
- crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus)
- in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age
- pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
- raccoon butterfly (Chaetodon fasciatus)
- raccoon butterflyfish, (Chaetodon lunula)
- raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
- raccoon eyes
Translations
Anagrams
- carcoon
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