"Tá bia ag an mbantiarna."
Translation:The lady has food.
December 17, 2014
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talideon
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More to the point, it's a compound of 'ban' (woman) + 'tiarna' (lord), and while grammatically masculine (4th declension), it's treated as feminine.
mpbell
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Is the eclipsis on mbantiarna the Ulster way, or the Munster+Connacht way? Would the other option be to lenite?