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

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bennacht	bennacht pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbennacht
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), “bennacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language