beach ghabhair

Irish

Etymology

Literally, “goat bee”.

Noun

beach ghabhair f (genitive singular beiche gabhair, nominative plural beacha gabhair)

wasp
Synonym: foiche

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

“beach ghabhair”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “beaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “beach ghabhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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