gaoid
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish gáet, verbal noun of gáetaid, from Old Irish goíte, the past participle of gonaid (“to wound, kill”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷaneti (“to strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to slay, kill”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gaoid f (genitive singular gaoide, plural gaoidean)
- blemish, defect
- gun ghaoid gun ghalair ― without blemish or disease
- stain
- disease
- flaw (particularly in cattle)
- (a' ghaoid) potato disease
- (rarely) wind, blasts, flatulence
Related terms[edit]
- gaoideach (“defective”)
- gaoideanta (“unsound at the core, idle, slothful, sluggish”)
- gaoideantachd (“idleness, slothfulness, slugishness”)
Mutation[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
gaoid | ghaoid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “gaoid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gaét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷʰen-
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples