baintreach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

PIE word
*gʷḗn

From Middle Irish baintrebthach f,[1] originally “landlady”, from ban- (combining form of ben (“woman”)) + trebthach (“householder”), from Old Irish treb (“farm, holding”), from Proto-Celtic *trebā (“settlement”) (compare Welsh tref (“town”)), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (compare Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”)). Replaced now archaic feadhbh, from Old Irish fedb.

Pronunciation

Noun

baintreach f (genitive singular baintrí, nominative plural baintreacha)

  1. widow
    Synonym: baintreach mná
    Coordinate term: baintreach fir

Declension

Declension of baintreach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative baintreach baintreacha
vocative a bhaintreach a bhaintreacha
genitive baintrí baintreach
dative baintreach
baintrigh (archaic, dialectal) 		baintreacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhaintreach na baintreacha
genitive na baintrí na mbaintreach
dative leis an mbaintreach
leis an mbaintrigh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhaintreach
don bhaintrigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na baintreacha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of baintreach
radical lenition eclipsis
baintreach bhaintreach mbaintreach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “baintrebthach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 39
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 171, page 64

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