bainis

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish banais, bainis (“wedding feast, wedding”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *banowessā. The Old Irish word is often folk-etymologized as ben (“woman, wife”) + feis (“festival”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbanʲəʃ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbanˠəʃ/[2] (corresponding to the form banais)

Noun

bainis f (genitive singular bainise or bainse, nominative plural bainiseacha or bainseacha)

  1. wedding, wedding feast

Declension

Declension of bainis (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bainis bainiseacha
vocative a bhainis a bhainiseacha
genitive bainise bainiseacha
dative bainis bainiseacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhainis na bainiseacha
genitive na bainise na mbainiseacha
dative leis an mbainis
don bhainis 		leis na bainiseacha

Derived terms

  • aoi bainise
  • bainis a dhéanamh
  • bainis bhaiste
  • béile bainise
  • cáca bainise
  • cárta bainise
  • cóisir bhainise
  • comóradh bainise
  • fear tionlacain bainise
  • gliúrach bhainise
  • lucht bainise
  • máirseáil bhainise
  • teach bainise

Mutation

Mutated forms of bainis
radical lenition eclipsis
bainis bhainis mbainis

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “banais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 254, page 91

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