OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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Cor., Br. banne, gutta; root bha; O. Slav. banja, bath; Eng. bath, etc.
bàir, a game, goal, Ir. báire, hurling match, goal, M. Ir. báire: *bag-ro-, root bāg-, strive; see arabhaig. bàireach, a ball.
baircinn, side timbers of a house (Sh.):
baireachd, quarrelling (Carm.); cf. bàirseag.
†bairghin, bread, cake, Ir. bairghean, E. Ir. bargen, W., Cor., and Br. bara, panis, *bargo-; Lat. ferctum, oblation cake; Ag. S. byrgan, to taste, Norse bergja, taste.
bàirich, lowing; root of bó, cow. Cf. bùirich.
bàirig, bestow; from Eng. ware, as also bathar.
bàirleigeadh, bàirneigeadh, warning, summons; from the Eng. warning.
bàirlinn, rooling wave, billow; bàir-linn, from †bàir, wave, borrowed from Norse bára, wave, billow. For linne, see that word.
bàirneach, a limpet, Ir. báirneach (Fol.), W. brenig, Cor. brennic: from M. Eng. bernekke, now barnacle, from Med.Lat. bernaca. Stokes takes bàirnech from barenn, rock, as Gr. λεπάς, limpet, is allied to λέπας, rock.
bàirneachd, judgment (Sh.), Ir., W., Br. barn, root ber in bràth, q.v.
bàirseag, a scold (Sh.), Ir. bairseach, M. Ir. bairsecha, foolish talk, bara, wrath, W. bâr, wrath. Stokes refers bara to the same origin as Lat. ferio, I strike, Norse berja, smite, etc.
baisceall, a wild person (Sh.); M. Ir. basgell (i. geltan), boiscell; root in bà, foolish? +ciall.
baiseach, a heavy shower, Ir. báisdeach, rain, bais, water; cf. O. Ir. baithis, baptism, which may be borrowed from Lat. baptisma (Windisch). The root here is bad, of bàth, drown. Ir. baiseach, raining (Clare), from baisteadh, Lat. baptisma (Zim.).
baist, baptise, Ir. baisd, O. Ir. baitsim, from Lat. baptizo, which is from Gr. βαπτίζω, dip.
baiteal, a battle; from Eng. battle.
balach, clown, lad, Ir. balach, clown, churl; cf. Skr. bālakas, a little boy, from bāla, young. But cf. W. bala, budding, root bhel. Rathlin Ir. bachlach.
balaiste, ballast; from the Eng.
balbh, dumb, so Ir., E. Ir. balb; borrowed from Lat. balbus.
balc, ridge, etc.; see bailc. Also "calf of leg" (Wh.).
balc, misdeed:
balcach, splay-footed (H.S.D.). Cf. Gr. φολκός, bandy-legged(?).
balg, belly, bag, Ir. bolg, O. Ir. bolc, W. bol, boly, belly, Cor. bol, Gaulish bulga (Festus), sacculus; Got. balgs, wine-skin, Norse belgr, skin, bellows, Eng. belly.
