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bennán

2699.
Hughes (A. J.): Old Irish mennán, bennán.
In ZCP 43 (1989), pp. 179–186.
Argues that mennán and bennán are etymologically unrelated but that the former attracted the latter to its semantic range because of the sporadic sound change b > m.
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