An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

heA BEA beA BEA
h\y itiA coimit)ecc .1. tonjA c|íe-eoc1i]iAcíiA tji
eA|inA, AjAj' connecAix) loini vo cacIi lint)
•oÁilce]A ocAib. C. 2055.
bAfC, red; " bA]-c .1. cac n-'oeiij: bA^-c OAti
All CAii 1)- t)o ciiibpec b]iAi aja]" i)' doiia nieilAib
DiiAcoiTOAib i]- •oiie]-". Cor. Glos.
t)A|-cúri, a poltroon, a sumph.
bÁcAt), drowning, eclipsing. " e-n-conn tia
iiibAii 'DO liAcATb". Eocliy CHosey, Trin.
Coll. H. 1. 14. fol. 127.
be cuicce^\ni-A, rival wife. Rawl. 487.
O'D. 2115
beAbAi^', lie died; 1 n-ei]iinn bic beAbAi]' (in
Parva Hibernia abiit), .1. 1 m-bec e-pinn ac
bÁcVi .1. bui A bÁf". Feilire Aenguis, 23rd
April.
bcAcc, exact, decided, stipulated. See Aiin-
beAccA. " II1 beACCA tii roccA". Egert. 88.
C. 2239, 2596.
C. 880.
" 1ci]ibeccA aja^^ AiiibeccA.
beAt)Ai-De, fond of dainties proud (Donegal).
;
" Loc nA iiibjieAc beAXiAi-óe." Doneg. Ord.
Map, Sli., Tullagliobegley parish.
beAj bee, small, little. Lat. paucus. " bee,
quasi ecec Ebraice parvus interpretatur 1360
neA'ó cofA15 pb Ann". Cor. Glos. becAn,
pauxillum, paullulus. i. 12 of Zeuss.
beAÍAC AbpA-o, the name of that part of the
ancient road from Kilmallock to Cork which
passes through the mountain of Ceann abhradh
Sleibhe Caoin. See Ceann Abhrat infra,
and also the life of St. Lachtain, of Bealach
Abhra. Also notes to O'Conor's translation
of the Annals of Inishfallen, ad. ann. 976.
bcAb ÁCA nAii-TJeii^e, now anglicised Athneasy,
the name of a ford and parish in the barony
of Coshlea, county of Limerick, four miles to
the east of Kilmallock. The ford so called is
on the Morning-star river, called in Irish, ca
iiA n-t)ei^'eAch ; it is near the httle village
called the Cross of Elton. This ford, according
to the Four 3iasters, is in the very centre
of the territory of cliu niAib inic UgAine. See
their annals, at 1579.
beAbjA'OÁn, now Bulgaden, a townland in the
parish of Kilbreedy Major, near Ivilmallock,
in the county of Limerick. This place is
mentioned in the Annals of the Four Jlasteis
A.D. ann. Mundi, 3751.
bcAn yo]icAi«, a violated woman. Egert. 88.
C. 2235.
bcAnn, a peak, gable, a horn, point, crest.
" pice cét) CAC liiibe ajai" CAcbA]i]\ ciuiAU •00
coiiiOjicA CAcniibe a]i cinn cec fi\\ aja]' beAnti
óip no Aijijit) no uviiAi Af cAcb cAébÁ|i]i".
Lih. Lee. fol. i^'2, a a. " AiiiAib At) cbof
ipii longiDliojicuib coriieiiip iia cojip^u uo'ii
CAC 110 e]i5iBA]ie uibe An I'boj a^a-)- |io yieic
conpiu 111u|-c ^iiAf nA ploj^Aib -oo cum in
AcilA, AJAp ]\0 lAepeC nA CUJIAIT) iiibi A nibcAUUA
CO nA CAcbAji-iiAib 'oiA cennAib ipn
Ácb coniT) é A Aintn o pm ible Ach m-beAnnchAi]\
.1. pobitnA m-beAun po bAepec nA cu-
pAi-o T)ib Ann". Id.
beAnnA boipcbe, the ancient name of the
Monrne mountains, in the county of Down.
TllocA boAnn boipclie is in the townland of
Ballymaghery, parish of ClonduiF, barony of
Upper Iveagh, county of Down. It is above
the river Bann, near the Eight mile bridge.
beAnncAip, hills, mountains, rocks, cliffs;
also cow-horns ; any horns. P. 0' Connellys Diet.
beAnncobAji, the conical cap of a round tower.
It Uterally means the shield of the summit,
from bcAnn and cobpA. " 1121. AcAch
gAoice móipe vo cichcAin in "Oecembep tia
bliATinA po copo Ia a beAU-ocobAp tio cloiceAcb
AptiATiiAchA". Four Masters. "1121.
Ingens venti tempestas hoc anno in mensi
Decembri supremurn tectum turris Ardmachana
dejecit". Triad. Thau, p. 300.
beApAC, a heifer. See biopAcb.
beApbA, a dialect; beApbA peine, the Phenian
dialect of the Irish. On the different dialects
of the Irish language Teige O'Rody wrote as
follows in the year 1700;
" The Irish is the most difficult and copious
language in the world, having five dialects
viz., the common Irish, the poetic, the law
or lawyers' dialect, the abstractive and separative
dialects ; each of them five dialects being
as copious as any other language, so that a
man maybe perfect in one, two, three, or four
of these dialects, and not understand even a
word in the other, contrary to all other languages,
so that there are now several in Ireland
perfect in two or three of these dialects, but
none in all, being useless in these times. I
have seen several voUmaes that none in the
world cm now peruse ; though within twenty
years there lived three or four that could read
and understand them all, but left none behind
them absolutely perfect in all those books, by
reason that they lost the estates [.1. Nemeds]
they had to uphold their publique teaching,
and that the nobiUty of the Irish line, who
would encourage and support their posterity,
lost all their estates, so that the antiquaryes'
posterity were forced to follow husbandry, etc ,
to get their bread, for want of patrons to sup-