búaid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- (archaic) boid
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory”) (compare Welsh budd (“profit”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰówdʰi (“victory”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buːa̯ðʲ/
Noun
búaid n (genitive búaide, nominative plural búada)
- victory, triumph
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43b7
- a mbuaid glosses triumphus
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43b7
- special quality, gift, virtue
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27c20
- búaid precepte
- the gift of teaching
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27c20
- profit, advantage, benefit
Usage notes
Used attributively in the genitive singular to mean victorious, triumphal, pre-eminent, precious.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
búaid | búaid pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbúaid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- “1 búaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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