bannish

Manx

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): /ˈbanəʃ/

Noun

bannish f (genitive singular banshey, plural banshyn)

  1. wedding
    Va paart dy soddag banshey brisht ayns meeryn veggey ― A portion of the wedding cake was broken in little pieces

Adjective

bannish

  1. bridal

Mutation

Mutation of bannish
radical lenition eclipsis
bannish vannish mannish

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
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
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