biseach
Irish
FWOTD – 26 August 2022
Etymology
From Middle Irish bisech (“increase, addition”), from Old Irish bisex (“bissextile”), from Latin bisextus (“intercalary day”).
Pronunciation
Noun
biseach m (genitive singular bisigh)
- intercalary day or year
- increase, addition
- improvement (especially with regard to health), recovery, recuperation
- 1894 March 1, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
- Bliadhain ’na dhiaidh sin, thug an rí fá deara an tromas a bhí ag éirghe innti, acht leig sise uirri gur bh’é an biadh maith a bhí sí ag fagháil a bhí ag cur an bhisigh sin uirri.
- A year after that, the king noticed how bulky she was growing, but she pretended that it was the good treatment she was getting that was putting that improvement on her.
- Tá biseach mór air. ― He’s much better [after an illness]. (literally, “A great recovery is on him.”)
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Declension
Declension of biseach
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- biseach fada
- bisigh
- bliain bhisigh
- lá bisigh
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| biseach | bhiseach | mbiseach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Entries containing “biseach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “biseach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “biseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bisech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bisex”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “biseaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 68
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