beggan

See also: béggan

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish becán m (“a little, small quantity”) (compare Irish beagán, Scottish Gaelic beagan). By surface analysis, beg (“small”) +‎ -an.

Noun

beggan m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. a little bit

Mutation

Mutation of beggan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
beggan	veggan	meggan

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “becán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language