benagán

Middle Irish

Etymology

ben (“woman”) +‎ -agán

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲenəɡaːn/

Noun

benagán m

1. (little) woman

Mutation

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

Further reading

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