bean feasa

Irish

Etymology

Literally, “woman of knowledge”

Noun

bean feasa f (genitive singular mná feasa, nominative plural mná feasa)

(female) fortune-teller, wise woman, (female) clairvoyant

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “fios”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 317
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “bean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bean feasa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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