- beann
- top, horn, peak, Irish beann, Old Irish benn, pinna, Welsh ban, height, peak, Middle Breton ban, also benny, horn, pipe (music), Gaulish canto-bennicus mons, "white peak" mount; proto-Gaelic bennâ; root $$gen-, $$gn-, as in English knoll, Scottish knowe. In Scotch Gaelic, the oblique form beinn has usurped the place of beann, save in the gen.pl.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.