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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Either bean + -ail, or possibly directly from Middle Irish banamail, from the same basic etyma. Compare Irish banúil, Manx benoil.
Pronunciation
Adjective
banail
- feminine, womanly
- virginal
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| banail |
bhanail
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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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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “banail”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “banamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language