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banais
banais
See also: bañáis
Irish
Noun
banais f (genitive singular banaise, nominative plural banaiseacha)
- Alternative form of bainis (“wedding; wedding-feast”)
Declension
Declension of banais
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| banais | bhanais | mbanais |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "banais" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish banais (“marriage-feast, wedding”), from Proto-Celtic *banowessā, equivalent to Old Irish ben (“woman, wife”) + feis (“festival”).
Noun
banais f (genitive singular bainnse, plural bainnsean)
- wedding
- Rud a thachras tric aig banais. ― Something that often happens at a wedding.
Synonyms
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- “banais” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.