bél

• biô (ORB)

Inherited from Latin bellus.

bél m (feminine singular bèla, masculine plural béls, feminine plural bèles) (ORB)

1. beautiful

• belèta
• biotât

• bél in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• bel (archaic)

From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /⁠bél⁠/, “waist”).[1] Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *pälɜ (“interior, inside”).[2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeːl]

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• Rhymes: -eːl

bél (plural belek)

1. (anatomy) intestine, bowel
2. kernel (of nut)
3. flesh, pulp (fruit)
4. the soft part of bread
5. wick (candle)

• bél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bél in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

From Proto-Celtic *wewlos.[1] Compare Welsh gwefl (“animal lip”), Cornish gwevel.

• IPA^(key): /bʲeːl/

bél m (genitive béoil or béuil, nominative plural béoil or béuil)

1. lip
2. (sometimes in the plural) mouth
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^c23

     co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu

     so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with [my] mouth and what I might think with [my] heart might be different

3. opening

• Irish: béal, beola
• Manx: beeal
• Scottish Gaelic: beul
• ⇒ Middle Irish: bélbach
  • Irish: béalbhach

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language