bainis

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. wedding, wedding feast

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bainis bhainis mbainis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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, page 91

Further reading

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