Looking for a great "B" name for a female working dog - Page 6

Brogan  male or female

If you're going to consider "Banshee" as suggested above, that's the pronunciation.  The correct spelling is bean sídhe.

"Badb"  - "Crow" (as she is black) or "Badb Catha"  - (Battle Crow)

"BOLO" - be on the lookout

Correcting myself - but for your information.  "Banshee" as pronounced above can also be spelled as "bean sí ".  There are other spellings outside of Irish Gaelic.  For instance, Scottish Gael could be bean-shìdh or some variation of that. 

BAKA...SHORT A   LONG A

And another correction.

Originally posted by Mystere:

...strikes terror in the hearts of those who know what those nasty, Irish creatures were supposed to be capable of. ...

An intersting, however prejudicial "comment", especially considering the source.

For your information, the bean sídhe was most often in the form of a woman and only "cried out" as a forewarning of the time of death.  Originally, it was limited to 5 of the major Irish families - the Cavanaughs, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, the O'Neils and the O'Gradys.  That expanded as intermarriage did.  She could appear as a young woman, a stately old matron, or a bedraggled old hag and usually in a winding sheet. 

Most often "she" was seen as the wailing heard as the bean nighe - the "washer woman" - who was washing the blood out of the clothes of the one (or those) who were about to die within those original families.  Not unlike the duties, wailing and preparation of the body that those who may or may not have been your own ancestors displayed after the death of someone in a community, family or plantation and have continued to displayed.  The difference was that the death was "foreseen". The difference is is that the Irish don't continue to display that wailing publicly after death.  There was no incessant wailing of the bean sídhe after death. That would be disrespectful of the one resting peacefully and disturb their (perceived) restful peace. Prior to death she can be heard as the bean chionte, who emits a piercing scream that shatters glass.  She can also be so compasionate as to emit a low, soothing almost "singing" sound.  Either way, both are bean sídhe.

There are several forms that a bean sídhe, perceiving that they might be ignored, can take, not the least of which is a "hooded" crow.  Hence, my suggestion of the "B" names "bean sídhe", "bean sí", as a result of the attempted pronunciation of same posted above, followed by  "Badb"  - "Crow" (as she is black) or "Badb Catha"  as she is a black working dog. 

"Bean sídhe" or "Bean sí", whichever way you choose to spell it, is pronounced the same, and while it might be considered by you as "those nasty Irish creatures", the bean sídhe are less nasty than your own (alleged) ancestors could/would claim or be capable of.  Shall we now explore VooDoo? 

I apologize, Kari.  I wasn't going to get into specifics but what Mystere posted really bothered me and considering the comment and the source, I thought an explaination was in order.

How about Barb?  When I was a kid, our bus drivers name was Barb.  She was the toughest woman I have ever met.  She would stare at you in her mirror and burn holes in your retinas if you looked back at her.  She smoked the same kind of cigar as Clint Eastwood and had a tattoo of a dagger that had "MOM" underneath.   

Here's a few I like:

Branda - Sword

Branka - Glorious Protector

Brangwen - Fair Raven

Breann - Force, Strength

Melissa 

Originally posted by Mystere:

Can't wait to see the German (or American for that matter) confronted with and attempting to pronounce names with Gaelic spelling. LOL

You can't wait to see...?  LOL? 

I'd venture to guess that most Germans (it is International, after all) would know what they were reading.  I'd venture to further guess that they would have the class and intelligence to ASK (as opposed to "aks") the correct pronunciation of the name. 

This is unlike you, who apparently knows nothing about that which you are attempting to speak of (other than prejudice, of course).  Then, you attempt to speak knowledgeably about the bean sídhe and try to seem credible doing it despite your obviouse intense research that allowed you to misspelll bean sídhe to "banshee"?.  Do you honestly think that all Americans and all Germans are as ill-educated as you?  To quote you again:

"LOL"

In that respect you are exactly correct.  Laughable.  Laughable Out Loud. 

Sorry, Kari.  This is my last post in this thread in the hopes that the thread gets back on tract to find you some great "B" names.

Way to ruin a good thread, Fiona -

just because the "correct Gaelic spelling" of a word is one thing, doesn't mean that the same word isn't spelled BANSHEE in ENGLISH.  or AMERICAN.   or, who the heck cares how it's spelled, oh expert on those nasty screaming Banshee women-things in Irish lore.  There are MANY renditions of Banshee-things-creatures-entities.......Whatever.  I have a dog named BANSHEE - it's a great B name no matter what anyone thinks or believes it means or should be spelled (and I wouldn't spell it Bean-si as I don't normally write, think or translate things into Gaelic like you special people do - how many people would automatically know what BANSHEE is, and means - versus BEAN-SI.  I didn't know, thanks so much for educating me on the Gaelic spelling of BANSHEE.