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
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. |
Portuguese
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
- “banais” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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