benagán

Middle Irish

Etymology

ben (“woman”) +‎ -agán

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbʲenəɡaːn/

Noun

benagán m

(little) woman

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
benagán	benagán pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbenagán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

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