bendacht

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Insular Proto-Celtic *bendixtyū (whence also Proto-Brythonic *bendiθ, whence Welsh bendith) from Latin benedictiō. When declined as an ā-stem, assimilated to the suffix -acht. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʲen̪.d̪əxt̪/ (Blasse) [ˈbʲen̪.d̪axt̪] (Griffith) [ˈbʲen̪.d̪əxt̪] === Noun === bendacht f (genitive bendachtae or bendachtan, nominative plural bendachta or bendachtain) blessing benediction ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: bennachtIrish: beannachtManx: bannaghtScottish Gaelic: beannachd→ Old Norse: bjannak === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bendacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language