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English
Proper noun
Banbha
- Alternative form of Banba
Irish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish Banba.
Proper noun
Banbha f (genitive Bhanbha)
- (poetic) Ireland
- Synonyms: Éire, Fódla
Declension
Indeclinable
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| Banbha
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Bhanbha
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mBanbha
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “Banḃa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 52
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “Banḃa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Banba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language