bean-shìdh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). By surface analysis, bean- (“woman”) +‎ sìdh (“fairy mound”).

Noun

bean-shìdh f (genitive singular mnà-shìdh, plural mnathan-shìdh)

  1. a fairy woman
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