beannach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bennach (“pointed, peaked; horned”), from benn (“horn, antler; prong”). By surface analysis, beann (“horn, antler; tine, prong”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

beannach (genitive singular masculine beannaigh, genitive singular feminine beannaí, plural beannacha, comparative beannaí)

1. horned, antlered
2. pronged
3. peaked
4. gabled
5. angular
6. (anatomy) mitral

Declension

Declension of beannach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	beannach	bheannach	beannacha; bheannacha²
Vocative	bheannaigh		beannacha
Genitive		beannaí	beannacha	beannach
Dative	beannach; bheannach¹	bheannach; bheannaigh (archaic)	beannacha; bheannacha²
Comparative	níos beannaí
Superlative	is beannaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
beannach	bheannach	mbeannach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beannach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bennach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language