bannán

See also: bannan

Old Irish

Etymology

From bannae (“drop”) +‎ -án.

Noun

bannán m

1. small drop, droplet.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bannán	bannánL	bannáinL
Vocative	bannáin	bannánL	bannánuH
Accusative	bannánN	bannánL	bannánuH
Genitive	bannáinL	bannán	bannánN
Dative	bannánL	bannánaib	bannánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bannán	bannán pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbannán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bannán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language