broid

English

Verb

broid (third-person singular simple present broids, present participle broiding, simple past and past participle broided)

  1. Obsolete form of braid.
    • 1611, 1 Timothy, King James Bible:
      In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for broid in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brat, broit f (act of plundering, robbing; spoil, plunder, robbery; captive(s) as spoil; captivity, bondage; affliction, hardship).

Noun

broid f (genitive singular broide)

  1. (literary) captive; (collective) captives
  2. captivity, bondage
  3. distress
  4. misery, suspense
  5. press, hurry
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

broid f (genitive singular broide, nominative plural broideanna)

  1. sting-fish
Declension
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

From Old Irish bruitid (goads, pricks, verb), from brot m (goad; spike)

Verb

broid (present analytic broideann, future analytic broidfidh, verbal noun broideadh, past participle broidte)

  1. (transitive) goad, prod
  2. (transitive) nudge
Conjugation

Etymology 4

Noun

broid m

  1. vocative singular of brod (goad)
  2. genitive singular of brod
  3. nominative plural of brod
  4. dative plural of brod

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
broid bhroid mbroid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "broid" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • 1 brat” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • bruitid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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