bàs

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bas"

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bás, from Old Irish bás, from Proto-Celtic *bāstom, bāssom, from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (to go) or *(s)gʷes- (to extinguish).[1][2]

Noun

bàs m (genitive singular bàis, plural bàsan)

  1. death, demise

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References

  1. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie. Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 100, ISSN (Print) 0084-5302, 30 April 2003
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bāsto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • 1 bás” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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