"bean sí" meaning in Irish

See bean sí in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bʲanˠ ʃiː/, /bʲan̪ˠ ʃiː/
Etymology: From Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). By surface analysis, bean + sí. Etymology templates: {{der|ga|sga|ben síde||lit=woman of the fairy mound}} Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”), {{surf|ga|bean|sí|pos=noun}} By surface analysis, bean + sí Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|mná sí|||||||nominative plural|mná sí|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí), {{ga-noun|f|mná sí|mná sí}} bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: mná sí [genitive, singular], mná sí [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], bean sí [indefinite, nominative, singular], mná sí [indefinite, nominative, plural], a bhean sí [indefinite, singular, vocative], a mhná sí [indefinite, plural, vocative], mná sí [genitive, indefinite, singular], ban sí [genitive, indefinite, plural], bean sí [dative, indefinite, singular], mnaoi shí [archaic, dative, dialectal, indefinite, singular], mná sí [dative, indefinite, plural], mnáibh sí [archaic, dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an bhean sí [definite, nominative, singular], na mná sí [definite, nominative, plural], na mná sí [definite, genitive, singular], na mban sí [definite, genitive, plural], leis an mbean sí [dative, definite, singular], don bhean sí [dative, definite, singular], leis an mnaoi shí [archaic, dative, definite, dialectal, singular], don mhnaoi shí [archaic, dative, definite, dialectal, singular], leis na mná sí [dative, definite, plural], leis na mnáibh sí [archaic, dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], bean sí [error-unrecognized-form], bhean sí [error-unrecognized-form], mbean sí [error-unrecognized-form], bean sídhe [alternative, obsolete]
  1. banshee, fairy woman Tags: feminine Derived forms: coigeal na mban sí (english: reed-mace, cat’s tail), líon na mban sí (english: fairy flax, purging flax), lus na mban sí (english: foxglove), méaracáin na mban sí (english: purple foxglove)
    Sense id: en-bean_sí-ga-noun-P05k9Aak Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Female, Folklore, Mythological creatures
     
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "banshee"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "banshee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "ben síde",
        "4": "",
        "lit": "woman of the fairy mound"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "bean",
        "3": "sí",
        "pos": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, bean + sí",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). By surface analysis, bean + sí.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a mhná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ban sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "dialectal",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mnáibh sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mban sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don mhnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na mnáibh sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sídhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "mná sí",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "mná sí",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "mná sí",
        "3": "mná sí"
      },
      "expansion": "bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Female",
          "orig": "ga:Female",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Folklore",
          "orig": "ga:Folklore",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Mythological creatures",
          "orig": "ga:Mythological creatures",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "reed-mace, cat’s tail",
          "translation": "reed-mace, cat’s tail",
          "word": "coigeal na mban sí"
        },
        {
          "english": "fairy flax, purging flax",
          "translation": "fairy flax, purging flax",
          "word": "líon na mban sí"
        },
        {
          "english": "foxglove",
          "translation": "foxglove",
          "word": "lus na mban sí"
        },
        {
          "english": "purple foxglove",
          "translation": "purple foxglove",
          "word": "méaracáin na mban sí"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "banshee, fairy woman"
      ],
      "id": "en-bean_sí-ga-noun-P05k9Aak",
      "links": [
        [
          "banshee",
          "banshee"
        ],
        [
          "fairy",
          "fairy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲanˠ ʃiː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲan̪ˠ ʃiː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bean sí"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "reed-mace, cat’s tail",
      "translation": "reed-mace, cat’s tail",
      "word": "coigeal na mban sí"
    },
    {
      "english": "fairy flax, purging flax",
      "translation": "fairy flax, purging flax",
      "word": "líon na mban sí"
    },
    {
      "english": "foxglove",
      "translation": "foxglove",
      "word": "lus na mban sí"
    },
    {
      "english": "purple foxglove",
      "translation": "purple foxglove",
      "word": "méaracáin na mban sí"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "banshee"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "banshee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "ben síde",
        "4": "",
        "lit": "woman of the fairy mound"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "bean",
        "3": "sí",
        "pos": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, bean + sí",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). By surface analysis, bean + sí.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a mhná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ban sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "dialectal",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mnáibh sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mban sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bhean sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don mhnaoi shí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na mná sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na mnáibh sí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbean sí",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bean sídhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "mná sí",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "mná sí",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "mná sí",
        "3": "mná sí"
      },
      "expansion": "bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish compound nouns",
        "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Irish feminine nouns",
        "Irish irregular nouns",
        "Irish lemmas",
        "Irish multiword terms",
        "Irish nouns",
        "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "ga:Female",
        "ga:Folklore",
        "ga:Mythological creatures"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "banshee, fairy woman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "banshee",
          "banshee"
        ],
        [
          "fairy",
          "fairy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲanˠ ʃiː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲan̪ˠ ʃiː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bean sí"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bean sí meaning in Irish (4.9kB)

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  "path": [
    "bean sí"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bean sí",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "bean sí"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bean sí",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "bean sí"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
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