béile

== Irish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą. The m was changed to b as a back-formation from the mutated forms, where *méile and *mhéile were reinterpreted as mbéile and bhéile. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʲeːlʲə/ === Noun === béile m (genitive singular béile, nominative plural béilí) meal (food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time) Synonyms: proinn, séire ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “béile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “béile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN “meal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026 Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 73