banail

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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Either bean +‎ -ail, or possibly directly from Middle Irish banamail, from the same basic etyma. Compare Irish banúil, Manx benoil.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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banail

  1. feminine, womanly
  2. virginal

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
banail bhanail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “banail”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “banamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language