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Etymology to the word

BANSHEE

ETYMOLOGY

GAELIC BEAN-SHITH => FAIRY; GAELIC & IRISH BEAN=> WOMAN + GAEL. SITH=> FAIRY IRISH BEAN SÍDHE OLD IRISH BEN SÍDE, WOMAN OF THE FAIRIES.

The definition of banshee means a mythological female spirit who cries to warn of an upcoming death.

English speakers modified the mournful fairy's Irish name into the modern word banshee - a term we now most often use to evoke her woeful or terrible or earsplitting cry, as in "to scream like a banshee," or attributively, "a banshee wail."

History of the english language Made by: Kristina kotevska marija cvetkovska