bennacht

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bendacht, from Latin benedictiō.

Noun

bennacht f (genitive bennachta or bennachtan, nominative plural bennachta or bennachtain)

1. blessing
2. benediction

Related terms

• bennachaid

Descendants

• Irish: beannacht
• Manx: bannaght
• Scottish Gaelic: beannachd
• → Old Norse: bjannak

Mutation

Mutation of bennacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
bennacht	bennacht pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbennacht

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

Further reading

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