different between leag vs beag

English

Noun

leag (plural leags)

1. Archaic spelling of league.

Anagrams

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, geal, lage

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??a?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lecaid, from Old Norse leggja.

Verb

leag (present analytic leagann, future analytic leagfaidh, verbal noun leagan, past participle leagtha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. knock down
2. lower
3. lay, set
4. (knitting) cast off (stitch)
5. (card games) play

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

leag f (genitive singular leige, nominative plural leaga)

1. Alternative form of leac

Declension

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 lecaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “leagaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "leag" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

English

Etymology

From Old English b?ag (“a ring, bracelet, collar, garland, crown, necklace, a shackle for the neck, a circle, coil”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewg?- (“to bend”). Cognate with dialectal German Baug (“ring, collar”), Icelandic baugur (“ring, circle”). Related to bagel.

Noun

beag (plural beags)

1. (historical) A ring.
   • 1878, Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society:

     It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.

   • 1970, William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England:

     [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.

Anagrams

• Bega, Gabe, bega

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bec (“small, little”) (compare Manx beg, Scottish Gaelic beag), from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small”) (compare Breton bihan and Welsh bach, bychan).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /b???/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /b???/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /b???/

Adjective

beag (genitive singular masculine big, genitive singular feminine bige, plural beaga, comparative lú)

1. small, little
   1. (size, amount, extent, degree)
   2. junior, lesser, minor
   3. (hypocoristic)
   4. (deprecatory)
   5. (of late, recent, time)
2. few (often with a singular noun in Irish)

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

beag m (genitive singular big, nominative plural beaganna)

1. little; small amount
2. (with copula) few

Declension

Mutation

References

• "beag" 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) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “beag” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “beag” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old English

Alternative forms

• b?ah

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”), from *beugan? (“to bend”). Cognate with Old High German bouc, Old Norse baugr. Compare Old English b?gan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ????/, [bæ????]

Noun

b?ag m

1. ring, arm-ring, bracelet

Declension

Derived terms

• healsb?ag m (“necklace”)

Descendants

• Middle English: beigh, bei?, b?, bi?, by
  • English: bee

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bec (“small, little”) (compare Manx beg, Irish beag), from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small”) (compare Breton bic’han and Welsh bach, bychan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pek/, /pik/

Adjective

beag (genitive singular masculine big, genitive singular feminine bige, nominative plural beaga, comparative bige)

1. small, little, short, diminutive

2. disagreeable

3. light, trifling, insignificant

4. young

5. sordid, miserly, niggardly

Declension

Synonyms

• bìodach
• mean
• meanbh
• mion

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “beag” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language