ben síde
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ben (“woman”) + síd (“fairy mound”).
Noun
[edit]ben síde f (genitive mná síde, nominative plural mná síde)
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: bean sí, bean sídhe (obsolete)
- Scottish Gaelic: bean-shìdh
- Manx: ben shee
References
[edit]- Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BANSHEE, sb..”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 158.