basc

See also: BASc, B.A.Sc., and B. A. Sc.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vascō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbask]
  • (file)

Adjective

basc (feminine basca, masculine plural bascs or bascos, feminine plural basques)

  1. Basque

Derived terms

Noun

basc m (plural bascs or bascos, feminine basca)

  1. Basque (person from the Basque country)

Noun

basc m (uncountable)

  1. Basque (language)

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

basc (present analytic bascann, future analytic bascfaidh, verbal noun bascadh, past participle basctha)

  1. (transitive) bash; crush

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
basc bhasc mbasc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “basc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “basc” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “basc” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle Irish

Etymology 1

From the root of modern baithis (top, crown (of head), literally baptism).

Noun

basc ?

  1. (weather) storm, heavy fall of rain

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *baskis (bundle, load).

Cognate to Welsh baich (load, burden), Ancient Macedonian βάσκιοι (báskioi, fasces, bundle), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, bundle), Latin fascis (band, bundle), Old English bæst (inner bark of the linden tree) and Albanian bashkë (together).[1]

Noun

basc ?

  1. round necklet or neckband, consisting of beads of precious stone

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
bascbasc
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbasc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.93

Occitan

Etymology

From French Basque.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

basc m (feminine singular basca, masculine plural basques, feminine plural bascas)

  1. Basque

Noun

basc m (plural basques, feminine basca, feminine plural bascas)

  1. Basque (person from the Basque country)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French basque.

Adjective

basc m or n (feminine singular bască, masculine plural baști, feminine and neuter plural baște)

  1. Basque

Declension

Noun

basc m (plural basci)

  1. Basque

Declension

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