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bannish

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Manx

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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bannish

  1. bridal

Mutation

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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

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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
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