becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys: #irish gaelic and manx folks calk their wives bean?! #im sure
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:#irish gaelic and manx folks calk their wives bean?! #im sure thats not how its pronounced an all but that’s amazing nonethelessIn Irish it’s pronounced “ban”, like in “bean sidhe” - which is Anglicised to ‘banshee’. “Faerie woman”, essentially. I seem to recall ‘bean’ is also their equivalent title to ‘Mrs’, though don’t quote me on that.My favourite thing about this chart is the extent to which we could not, as a collective family, even remotely agree a word for either ‘Parents’ or ‘Children’. -- source link