balg

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch balch, from Old Dutch balg, from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɑlx/ Hyphenation: balg Rhymes: -ɑlx === Noun === balg m (plural balgen, diminutive balgje n) leather bag bellows (falconry) fake bait for training birds cover for moving joints, as in articulated buses (dialectal) belly (obsolete) body ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → French: blague, blaque (obsolete)→ Italian: blaga, → blague→ Polish: blaga == Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === From Old Irish bolg m (“bag, satchel; sack; belly, stomach; (smith's) bellows”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpal̪ˠak/ === Noun === balg m (genitive singular builg, plural builg) (anatomy) abdomen, belly bladder blister (dated) bag ==== Synonyms ==== (belly): brù ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bolg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language