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) horned, antlered pronged peaked gabled angular (anatomy) mitral ==== Declension ==== === Mutation === === 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