beggan

See also: béggan

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish becán m (“a little, small quantity”) (compare Irish beagán, Scottish Gaelic beagan); synchronically, beg (“small”) +‎ -an

Noun

beggan m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. a little bit

References

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